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Mind you, right now, I'm trying to work out why this is happening:

That's the second roll where I've managed to fog up the negatives at some stage, probably loading the film.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Sun Mar 16th, 2008 at 08:31:32 AM EST
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Those of you who were just about to say that the fixer was exhausted or mixed wrong are of course right. Sorted now.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Sun Mar 16th, 2008 at 10:13:23 AM EST
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Well, it makes for an experimental solarization :-)

"What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman
by margouillat (hemidactylus(dot)frenatus(at)wanadoo(dot)fr) on Sun Mar 16th, 2008 at 04:42:27 PM EST
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Refixing in new solution sorted it out: I must have mismixed the fixer in the first place.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Sun Mar 16th, 2008 at 04:43:37 PM EST
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I have the bad habit of being in hurry when developing negs. As I use powder chemicals (ID 11), they are mixed at a temperature, and sometimes, to cool them down more quickly, I put the opaque, thick plastic bottle in the fridge !

Once, I even put it in the freezer part... For what I thought was few minutes. At the end of the developer pouring in the tank, I heard and felt a "thunk"... Looking in the bottle, there was a white pancake of the active solution that couldn't go through the bottle neck... The film was already wet with something that was mainly water!!!
In a frantic move, with a screwdriver, I broke the pancake to smaller bits, took them out, shoved them in the tank (in full dark), agitated... And invented on the spot a development time that neared tin-foil nerdism !

Those negatives was an important work and there was 6 rolls in the tank... Some time after, and after the fixing part, I got the negatives  out with trembling hands... And they were far from perfect but usable under the enlarger (with some work) !

The client was happy and I learned a lesson :-)

"What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman

by margouillat (hemidactylus(dot)frenatus(at)wanadoo(dot)fr) on Sun Mar 16th, 2008 at 04:56:10 PM EST
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