Re: HIE processing, added density, turbulence and more..

["Jason Revell (in5)" <jason.revell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Don't give up !

I think I must be one of the lucky few who has never had a problem with
development marks on HIE.

I use one of the patterson system 4 tanks (always the smallest size I can
get away with).  I give no prebath then agitation is as follows;

     5 solid taps onto the bench top once the dev is poured in followed by,
     2 solid taps and a slight 'jiggle' every 30 secs and one full inversion
every minute.

Then I just pour out the dev and in with a plain (filtered) water bath then
fix as normal.

"I" have never had a problem YET with this method after having processed
about 40 rolls this year but now that I have said that........

I hope this helps, maybe give it a few last trys?

Jason Revell
jason.revell@xxxxxxxxx

>From: Des Crawley
>
>I have tried  the agitation techniques cited  by Frank and by  Cor  in
>recent times and manage to get the streaks based on sprocket holes...I have
>reached a stage where I am about to give up...the film  now  a
>monster....after using it for 30 years without any problems whatsoever the
>last three years have been disastrous....
>
>help !
>
>Des
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