Re: XTOL, HIE, Clear negs

[Joshua_Putnam <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

m.j.gudzinowicz@xxxxxxxx (Michael J. Gudzinowicz) writes:

>Check your developer by placing a piece of exposed film clipped from the
>end of a roll in it under normal room lighting.  It should be very dark
>withing a few minutes.
>If it isn't, your developer may be contaminated with fixer or acid stop.

Almost totally unrelated, but this is another great thing about
bulk rolling film -- I end up with a light-tight can full
of the bits I cut off for the tapered leader, giving a ready
supply of otherwise useless bits of film for testing the
IR-tightness of all sorts of equipment, bellows, tanks, etc.

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