Re: Wet HIE Film Boxes

[boblong@xxxxxxxxxxx (Robert Long)]

On Mon, 06 Jan 1997 10:43:10 +0000 (GMT), Willem-Jan Markerink wrote:

|Yep, vaporizing is ment both for starting with the liquid *and* the=20
|solid form of a material/substance, but condensating vs sublimating is=20
|liquid and solid respectively.

So much for my teacher of so long ago!  I've twice asked vendors what
the "sublimation" in dye sublimation printers meant, and both times I
got non-answers that I interpreted as meaning "I don't know."

|Remember my arguments that both IR-leaking felt trap and fiber-optic=20
|acting film (due to the lack of an anti-halation layer) are=20
|responsible for the fogging?

Yes, and that's another area where I prefer safety to experimentation.
:)

|Btw, I wouldn't know what to do without the paper warning sticker on
|the lid of the cannister/container: scratching some paper of it is the
|only way for me to see whether the film is exposed or not....I can't
|look inside, can I?....;-))

Well, you can leave the film in the box until you load it.  Then any
film that is in the canister but not in the box has been exposed. =20

|Not a problem if you only expose/develop one film at a time, but it
|would be a nightmare with multiple bodies & films simultaneously
|otherwise.

Only if you make a practice of saving partially exposed films for
further use.  And in that case you would have to mark the frame number
on the canister label anyway, so you still would not be in doubt.

| Even now it requires more discipline that I would like to
|keep them apart....I have started to scratch the sticker the moment
|I take it out of the dark load bag after I loaded a film (empty
|container)....8-))

Um...  I just shake the canister to tell whether it's empty.

|All boxes that are floating around in my freezer outside the=20
|tupperware container (the even oddier film types like neg->slide copying=
=20
|stuff I once bought) are sealed in plastic bags. By looking at some=20
|kinds of food packaging boxes, I know they will soak beyond=20
|recognition without it....8-))

I've wondered about the "blistered" look of the boxes.  Perhaps
pockets of moisture trapped inside the cardboard freeze and swell to
create that look.

Bob Long
(boblong@xxxxxxxxxxx)

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