Re: film reticulation and lens website

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From: Nick Makris (nick@mcn.org)
Date: 01/19/01-05:28:37 PM Z


In reading through these posts and reflecting upon similar failures when
attempting film reticulation, it occurred that the key here was to heat the
film with hot liquid before you fix it. Perhaps if you use a non-hardening
fixer the process would work after fixing.

Just a thought,

Nick

----- Original Message -----
From: "The Painted Horse" <paintedhorse@in-tch.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: film reticulation and lens website

> Christina,
>
> I used to experiment with film reticulation back in college. I used
> Tri-x exclusively and was able to get pretty consistent results. I
> developed the film one roll at a time in one of those black plastic
> tanks. If memory serves correct, this was the procedure...
> 1. Develop film at the proper temperature and time with D76.
> 2. Pour out developer
> 3. Pour hot (150-160F) water into the tank and agitate for 1-2 minutes.
> 4. Pour out the water and pour in the stop bath at room temperature.
> 5. Pour out stop bath and pour in Fix at room temperature.
> 6. Wash film in "room temperature" water and dry.
>
> The film emulsion would come out looking cracked like a dried river bed.
> Severity of the effect depends on how hot the water is.
> I have never tried this with Verichrome Pan however. Hope this is
helpful.
>
> Bill-
>
> "Christina Z. Anderson" wrote:
> >
> > Here I slave away in the darkroom for hours trying to do this and you
get it
> > inadvertently????? It seems that my whole week has been like this;
NOTHING
> > has worked out. So this week I am going to take a roll of incredible
> > pictures on Tri-X and Verichrome Pan, that I don't want to ruin, and
then
> > use high and low temps between my processes, and maybe I'll be so
unlucky!
> > BTW, the woman who runs checkout told me this week that the same thing
> > happened to her. It was also Tri-X, and she didn't mean to do it. Maybe
> > film differs from batch to batch in its ease of reticulation?
> > Chris
> > > Hey Christina,
> > >
> > > God, I hate to admit this, but... I recently reticulated a roll of
Tri-X
> > > (TXP 120) by simply leaving it in a wash with warm (80 degree) water
for
> > > a long time, probably 30-40 minutes. As my defense, it gets really
> > > hectic around my house some days, with the four grandchildren living
> > > with us and I got distracted.
> > >
> > > I was (still am) very upset as there were some very nice stone circle
> > > rocks from Avebury on this roll. I developed in Rollo Pyro, and a non
> > > hardening fixer. With a loupe the pattern is like a dried river
bottom,
> > > or a dried mud flow. OK if you want it, but not my cup of tea.
> > >
> > > go for it
> > >
> > > --
> > > Darryl Baird
> > >
> > >
>


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