Response to Grainy film - What am I doing wrong?

Pete I was just reporting my experience. I don't know what Kodak says, but I have had grain problems when not keeping my solutions close to the same temperature and those grain problems were cleared up when I tightened up the temp differences. Moreover, I was speaking about wet time BEFORE fixing the film, and not after fixing the film. Yes, fine grain developers have much longer developing times that other developers, but I am talking about total immmersion in liquid prior to fixing, such as pre wet time, stop bath time, and also fixing time. Let us all not forget that "grain" is actually the space between silver particles on the negative and not the silver particles themselves as the silver particles block the light from the print, whereas the clear spaces between the particles let light through which looks to us like "grain". The larger the space, the larger the apparent grain. This is just my theory, but it seems to me that if there was some silver halide there and it is not there now, it must have migrated somewhere! And of course, the other thing may be the type of developer used, as has been suggested, different chemicals have different effects on the silver halide crystals concerning their shape and their edges. I certainly don't pretend to be a photographic chemist, but I do know grain when I see it and I know that when I was very careful about temperatures mine went away. It could have been something else, and if it was I wish I knew what it was. Kevin

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