A few weeks back, I raised the question about my negatives being too grainy. Several persons replied, and a few asked for a answer, if I achieved any resolution to the problem. A couple of items seem to have solved the problem. One was focusing. I found that my loop was not focused anywhere near the ground glass. Once I had corrected this, what a difference. Second, equally significant, was my well water. Our water here is very hard, and I took the suggestion from one person to substitute distilled water for the rinse portion. (Distilled water was already used for developer, rinse stop and fixer).(posted 8970 days ago)I cannot believe what a difference these two suggestion made. FP4 is printing like TMAX when you get everything perfect, but without all the fuss.......