My experience is that I was unable to get consistent results. I'd soak the film for X minutes, develop, and get a result. If it were satisfactory, I'd try it again, but the results would be different. It just didn't work for me. Maybe I didn't find the magic combination of pre soak time and developing technique.
tom wrote: > On Behalf Of Shel Belinkoff > > I don't recommend a pre soak. It has, for me, > > upset the development time and i could never get > > consistent results. It has been said that > > when the film has received a pre soak, uptake of > > developer may not be consistent. > > It's consistent, it's just consistently different. It might be > important to give the pre-soak enough time to totally soak in. > > The reason I do it is because I often load wet reels. When doing so > you get little water droplets on the film, and I have a sneaking > suspicion these little drops cause changes in density. If you have a > really wet tank/reels you can get actual streaks. -- Shel Belinkoff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/ "When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem." --Edward Abbey - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
