Steve Shapiro (sgshiya@redshift.com)
Sun, 21 Mar 1999 07:02:21 -0800
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> After the film is loaded I invert the tube thus releasing the
>developer from the cap below and shake vigorously for 20 to 30 seconds.
>Thus the agitation for the first 30 seconds is not rotary but random and
>chaotic.
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This seems to me as the problem. Shking like that creates an oxidized
developer; and the whole reason for using distilled water is to use water
with as little oxygen because the developer oxidizes and becomes a
suspension of unuseable chemicals.
You create a 'mottled' chemistry with some chemicals in suspension, active
chemicals that don't do what they're meant to be doing.
Streaks is an example of oxidized chemistry.
Never shake like a coctail. Agitation is a gentle motion for film
developing.
Steve S.
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