Re: Reducing Pyro negs

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From: Cor Breukel (cor@lumc.nl)
Date: 05/17/00-05:47:54 AM Z


It is said that in that a diluted acid (acetic) should remove the stain,
but in my hands this didn't work 9even applied a drop of glacial acetic
acid with no effect). Maybe you could consider bleaching and fixing away
the silver image? No personal experience here, so you better test
this..;-)..

Adam Kimball wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> I've got a few negatives that are simply too dense to be
> printed easily in platinum. They read 1.9 on a b&w
> transmission densitometer, and have a *good* deal of stain -
> they seem to be printing as if they were near 2.3 or more.
> Anyway, the exposures are taking around 35 minutes and its
> killing me. I'm sure farmer's reducer would work fine with
> them, but if there is a more optimal reducer - I'll use it.
>
> Much thanks,
> Adam


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