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[karmagarda]

By the way.... on the downside, after I posted my development steps here, I went back to have a look at the negative and dropped it . So I must add that to my steps of how I develop film "drop the thing on a carpet during the drying process" :nuts:. Here's the image that took the brunt of the fall:

 

[karmagarda]

Ah - but it is still colour, just black and white colour - still RGB though. I mean convert the image to greyscale before you work on it.


Arthur

I see what you're saying, thanks for the tip!

If you've got that Image by just shooting the backlit neg, then It'd be pretty impressive when you throw it through a scanner

Thanks! I have about 3 I'm gonna get scanned from that set to see how they turn out. I'm now considering buying one of those epson v500s now and do it all myself!

 

[TheBigYin]

i take it that the one you dropped was still a little tacky from what it picked up. Last time I did something similar (negs touched the shirt i was wearing, and it picked up a shedload of hairs. I snipped the affected one from the strip, dropped it back into the spiral and gave it a couple of rinses using aired water and a wetting agent (read some ecover washing up liquid) followed by 5 minutes more under a running tap - it pretty much shifted everything!

 

[karmagarda]

i take it that the one you dropped was still a little tacky from what it picked up. Last time I did something similar (negs touched the shirt i was wearing, and it picked up a shedload of hairs. I snipped the affected one from the strip, dropped it back into the spiral and gave it a couple of rinses using aired water and a wetting agent (read some ecover washing up liquid) followed by 5 minutes more under a running tap - it pretty much shifted everything!

Exactly. I never thought of sticking it back in the spiral, I know for again. It did get a shower though to remove any other bits on other photos. Let's just say, 2 photos didn't survive the fall

 

[TheBigYin]

well - the film I fluffed up was a roll of 35mm, maybe 10 frames covered in bits, so the spiral seemed the best way to hold the film by the edges while it got the "wetting agent" treatment - Dunked in the dev. tank, lid on and 5 minutes of twice a minute agitation.

 

[karmagarda]

well - the film I fluffed up was a roll of 35mm, maybe 10 frames covered in bits, so the spiral seemed the best way to hold the film by the edges while it got the "wetting agent" treatment - Dunked in the dev. tank, lid on and 5 minutes of twice a minute agitation.

Wicked. Thanks for the tip! . I can be a tad clumsy at times so no doubt I'll do something rediculous like this again so all tips are welcome