Response to Grainy film - What am I doing wrong?

I tend to agree with John concerning agitation. I think that the use of Jobo tanks kind of proves that continuous agitation doesn't really affect grain. I might look at a different thing here. Herbert, you state that you are pretty careful about keeping your developer at one temperature. But you don't say much about what temperature your other solutions are at. I have experiences grain migration in the past when I have inadvertently used varying temperatures for all of the solutoins required for development of films. In addition, it is well known that the longer a film is wet the more grain migrates (clumps) to make grain appear larger. I would try this. Keep all of your solutions the same temperature. Use a stop bath for 30 seconds instead of the many rinses. Use a hardening fixer. and keep the wash water at the same temperature as the rest of your solutions. Let us all know the results. kevin

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