C41 Photoflo

[useless generation]

Will re rinsing color C41 film with distilled water and a few drops of photoflo affect the film after rinsing in stabilizer? I just developed my first roll and there is quite a few drying marks. I've read online and people seem to have mixed opinions. Any C41 at home nerds want to share their technique?

 

[quejai]

I do my own E6 and C41, and have added photoflo at 1:300 (or whatever the correct dilution is) to the stabiliser bath solution. Great photos so far, without drying marks. The only problem is that it gets frothy when I try to pour the stabiliser back into its bottle.

 

[JRminox]

Photoflo is a surfactant (wetting agent) it help preventing drying streaks but... it has to be diluted as recommended by the spec sheet. Too much creates problems, too little is ineffective.

 

[Terry Christian]

Nothing should be touching the film after the stabilizer, or you might be risking long-term permanence of your negatives. I've personally always had bad luck in rinsing C-41 negatives with Photo-Flo. If you have any drying marks, just dampen the corner of a soft sponge with stabilizer and wipe gently.

 

[Particular]

I use the Tetenal/Jobo kit, which comes with the stabilizer in powdered form. I was getting drying marks even though I had used distilled water. I realized that the marks were re-crystalized stabilizer. I bought a bottle of Kodak stabilizer which I use instead of the powder. This has something equivalent to a wetting agent, and I have had no more problems.
The negs that had marks only had them on the film base side. I also only had a problem with 35mm, 120 was fine. I cleaned the marks up with film cleaner, and they came off very easily.

 

[useless generation]

I ended up rewashing with photoflo and it helped!

With the developer temp is it better to go a little hotter than colder? I kept it in a water bath but the temp dropped slightly during development! How much difference does it really make? How strict should it be?