The Darkroom Cookbook Forum

Steve, Commenting back to your second comment first as I think this is most relevant, I believe this is also a defect in the foma film. I just developed two rolls of Kodak Double-X spooled as 35mm and shot at 400 ISO in my new patterson plastic two reel tank ( i purchased this just to try to elimina...

Steve, I followed the development procedure again, Stock Xtol, 68F, Fomapan 400, 9 minutes with one full minute of inversion agitation, inverting for 10 seconds every minute, leaving one reel of four reels empty for a spacer. I now have much much worse artifacts that I have never gotten in all my da...

So I followed the development recommendation exactly as described above, and this time I got a problem I have never seen before with block spots all over the film as seen in the attached image

Steve, The tank is one of those small single reel tanks, it only holds about 275ml at the very most with no film on the reel. With film on the reel it holds about 260ml with no real room for chemical movement. I do have a four reel tank that I fill to 850ml, any more than that and I get bromide stre...

Hello Mr Anchell, in this case of the roll above, I am using a single roll metal tank with plastic cap lids and heavy duty Hewes reels. I am using 250 ml of liquid which I have checked by using a fully spooled reel in the tank and checked the liquid level to be sure it is adequate. The water I am us...

I am beginning to think this is what this is. I assume this edge with the issue must have been at the top of the reel. I am trying some experiments with some films to see if I can reproduce or eliminate it based on how I bang the tank. The one I just tested I must have banged it too much because I h...

Hello, I am getting these strange areas of density in my prints/scans where there is some kind of clumping going on always at the very edges of my film but inside the image area. This is the most recent example of it, and the first image I included is a close up of one of the streak/clumped areas wi...