Re-washing Negatives

[Jamie123]

I used a *real* squeegee today for the first time (used my fingers before) and as a result I got terrible streaks on my negs.

Can I just rinse the negatives with cold water and put them on a towel to dry? Should I hang them up again? Use Ilfotol again?

 

[arbib]

I used a *real* squeegee today for the first time (used my fingers before) and as a result I got terrible streaks on my negs.

Can I just rinse the negatives with cold water and put them on a towel to dry? Should I hang them up again? Use Ilfotol again?

Been a while for me. But

You can

Use warm water, not cold

after 10 min. soak the film in a Wetting agent for a minute or so. Kodak makes one in a 3oz bottle. or a small bottle anyway.

After you take the film out of the wetting agent, hang to dry with a film clip at each end. NO NEED TO SQUEEGEE TO DRY. The wetting agent will take care of that.

You can use a Film sponge type sqeegee if you like, but I never liked the rubber ones.

As I remember fom a distant past of doing my own BW films

 

[kaiyen]

I just re-rinse in distilled water, then in diluted photo-flo and let hang dry. Why squeegee? I have never seen the need for it.

allan

 

[Trius]

No need to squeegee, but fingers are best if you must. And Photo-Flo, in my experience, is best diluted 1:400, not 1:200. YMMV depending on your water source.

 

[w3rk5]

I know some people use the squeegee or fingers but I never had a water spot issue before. I just use "photo-flo" and hang to dry.

 

[amateriat]

Might depend on the squeegee – the one I have (Hama or Patterson), has never left any streaks (I do make a point of rinsing the squeegee out after each session, for what that's worth). Then, too, I use a Prinz electric film dryer as well, so that might make a difference too. Plain old (NYC) tap water throughout.


- Barrett

 

[Jamie123]

Thanks everyone. I will re-rinse the film later today and won't squeegee this time. I'm sure some people have good experiences with squeegees but it's given me nothing but problems.

 

[vicmortelmans]

Experience learnt me one advise: don't touch the film at all until it's completely dry!

Using wetting agent or alcohol is the better solution to fasten clean drying.

Groeten,

Vic

 

[CJP6008]

Distilled water, then distilled water with wetting agent. remove film, hold at 45 degres to let the drips run off then into the drying cabinet. Squeegy or fingers is asking for trouble - the film is as its most delicate when wet and soft. One of these days a bit of grit is going to scratch its way down the whole roll. I know folks do it, but it is not a good idea - like smoking - you know you are taking a risk! some folks get cancer and die in their 30s - yes and we all have some elderly relative wh o smoked 60 a day and died at 93. You know what I am saying, you are going to trash a film one day, you just don't know when.

 

[Jamie123]

Well, luckily I don't smoke 🙂 but I will try not to use a squeegee or my fingers next time. We'll see how it goes. Actually the only reason I squeegee'd at all is because I'm rather impatient and hardly ever wait more than 2h for my film to dry.