Re: Reticulation & Pt/Pd

["Christina Z. Anderson" <zphoto@montana.net>]

Jon,
I hope you are safe.  The fires have certainly made the news here.

What film were you using, Tri-X?  That reticulates wonderfully. Funny that 
you should have it so easily.  Most films nowadays have been hardened or 
something or other so wonderfully that my students cannot get them to 
reticulate at all, except for Tri-X.  I've even had them almost boil and 
freeze the film.  Forget Tmax 100.  They burn that.  Maybe we should move to 
Australia.

The reticulation happens wherever gelatin occurs, so globally on the 
negative.  It may be masked by the paper bumps, depending on how fine the 
pattern is.  I've, though, had Tri-X "snot" right off the film base and 
there would be no disguising that.
Chris
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon Reid" <jon@sharperstill.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 3:47 AM
Subject: Reticulation & Pt/Pd


> Hi all,
> Heat waves and death here in Australia. Whist sheltering from the  heat 
> over the weekend I decided to catch up on some processing (5x7  in 
> RolloPyro). I took good care to get the temps down and match them  only to 
> make a mistake right at the end when i didn't flush some  water from the 
> cold tap before it hit the negs. Whatever water that  was in the pipes 
> attached to the side of the house, rather than  underground, was basically 
> around 30C, and has caused reticulation on  all the negatives.
>
> I know that reticulation shows up when negatives are enlarged but  wanted 
> to know whether it would if contacted in Pt/Pd, which is what  I had 
> intended for the negs? I can't test myself for a few weeks and  need to 
> determine an urgency level for any re-shoot i need. It  appears to be 
> only/mostly in shadow areas too, would this be correct?
>
> Jon