Thin negs - help find the cause

[RayPA]

J...I will second or third the recomendation to use Diafine. Dead easy, quick and great results...Wayne

you can have the second. 🙂 I prefer something else as an all around developer. 😎 I do use a split D76 and split D23, for special purposes.

...Just a small word of caution when using HP 5 in Diafine. Expose at an E.I. of 800 instead of 400...

Isn't the Tri-X rating for Diafine EI 1250?

🙂

 

[f/stopblues]

Here's a little update:

My scanner doesn't handle 120 negs, so I laid one in the flatbed with a white sheet of paper behind it. Then I just inverted it and desaturated and this is what came out. I do this once in a while just to check out general composition, etc before making an actual print.

I know thin negatives scan better than they print, but I don't think its as bad as I feared. Only the darkroom will tell!

 

[dnk512]

Wayne: I do pre-soak ilford and I see the purple stuff come out when I empty the pre-soak water. I have no issues after that. I used to not pre-soak and my final negs were more purple than I liked them to be, though all scan fine. So, what is the right way? What should I look for?

 

[titrisol]

Prewetting any film has similar effects, Ilford are no exception.
While Ilford reccomends against it, it is a part of my SOP and haven;t had any adverse results with Ilford films and presoaking. It is like "half a dozen or 6 units"

Dev times need to be extended a tad but not real problems.

I like your sig titrisol 🙂

No presoak by the way. Ilford has that "wetting agent" so I've steered clear of that for this film.

That scanned image with tha piece of paper in the back looks awesome.... wish we could give such efects in the wet darkroom.... any ideas?