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Bad day at the wet bench
There aren't many days when I have a bad day in the darkroom. But yesterday was a real pig!!!
Having the devils own job to get the print quality from a few 8x10 contact prints. Thought it was my new contact printing light setup. After flapping around changing lamps returning to my old printing light box, I discovered it was the negatives that were at fault - slight uneven development in the centre of the negative resulting in a small dark area in the print. I'm returning to manual agitation of Paterson's Orbital and not use the motorised base So as a result of all this I only managed to get decent prints from 2 negatives. Well at least I now know the light set up is not the fault. I double checked it with my Pentax digital spotmeter and it is perfectly even. To cap it all I missed my delivery from Silverprint
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In the spirit of consolation I can confide that on Saturday I developed a 120 roll in fixer. Not a lot of dark areas anywhere on that roll.
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Many commiserations Trevor, I am sure this is just a blip and next time to will be back to your usual form. Damn annoying all the same though when these things happen.
Neil.
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Sounds like my kind of day, I deved a film and had the wrong dilution of fixer (way to weak) and was wondering why the film kept getting darker.
Time for a brew and choccy biscuit for days like that.
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Been there, done that. Very easy to print though.
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Today will be a much better day. |
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Though its not very good for whoever it happens to, it is somewhat reassuring that things like this don't just happen to us in isolation, and they happen to the most experienced and gifted people also.
I remember when I had problems in the past before the days of the internet, it could sometimes take days before you worked out what's gone wrong, now if your stumped you can come to somewhere like FADU and get the experience and help your looking for in a very short time. Neil |
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Sorry to hear about your woes Trevor, I eventually gave my motorised base away, just couldn't get an even development with it.
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I am now glad I haven't got a motorised base!
Neil.
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Some days in the darkroom can be blissful (did I say days!!! I'm lucky to snatch an odd hour here and there) and productive others very depressing when it seems nothing is going right.
Glad it's not just me Andrew
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