The bathroom's a mess and my hands smell funny...

[Matthew Allen]

I WOULD SAY YOU HAVE THE PROCESS NICELY UNDER CONTROL.

Time to get creative.

THANK YOU. Will do.

The worth source of smell for me is a vinegar which I use for stop-bath.
It's tolerable for film processing, but quite irritating when washing prints. So I bought odorless stopbath from Foma (Fomastop). Ilfostop is good also, where it available

Well, it doesn't bother me yet, but perhaps it will. The likelihood is I'll buy whatever I can get cheapest, wherever I happen to be.

Matthew, that is one seriously nice picture. I can't tell which one is the drying mark. Did you squeegee the negative before hanging? I didn't.

Thanks Will, I was rather pleased with how it turned out.

The drying mark isn't that noticeable, it's on the Summitar (the right hand lens). I didn't squeegee the negatives, I did my best not to touch them. The marks I'm seeing are almost certainly down to the very hard water we have here. I think next time I'll try doing the final wash in filtered water to see if that solves the problem.

Matthew