"Peifer, William [OCDUS]" wrote: > Another posting from yesterday which hasn't shown up yet.... >
(1) Do any of you have comments on the practice of presoaking roll film > in water (or perhaps dilute Photo-flo??) prior to the developer? That is, > load the roll on the reel, then immerse into a temperature-controlled > water bath, and then tranfer to the tank. Apparently a water presoak -- a > minute or so, IIRC -- was favored by Saint Ansel. The idea was that this > would saturate/swell the emulsion, get it equilibrated to the temperature > of the developer, and facilitate diffusion of developer into the emulsion. > <snip> I always presoak - don't time it precisely, constant agitation but gentle, in a 5 reel tank - to saturate the film so there is less chance of an air bubble with the developer - usually a tad less than a minute. I say always, but I haven't done much darkroom stuff recently. The other thing is using microdol-x 1-3 for 15 minutes at 75 degrees - for finer grain. annsan - 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 .
