I'm using 16 oz stainless steel tanks with full chemical coverage. As far as water goes I have heard puns about the noho's water system, lol. many people say that Massachusetts water is possessed or something. I haven't found any matter or residual items floating in the water I use, though I don't know about minute details I would have to further check it out. The store brands of bottled water begins at around $2.09, still rather expensive, I'll stick to the tap for now.(posted 8421 days ago)I had tested one past negative that was printed and it was tough getting the results I wanted and the print almost looks like the original and this took a couple of reprints to nail it down. Many of the past works had exposure info and filter info, time, etc and when refering to those to make a test print; proved invalid
I can probably find out the ph of the water or if any deposits to exist. Are their any chemical tests I can do from home? I have heard of a send out service for this kind of work before.
I will be trying out a new method of processing, this time at 75 degrees, though I'm trying to get information on HC-110 dil f which I believe is 1:19. Dilution B gives a time of 3:45, way to short I think. Or if I can employ the 1:31 dilution and keep the 200 ISO film speed. I use to do this with the tri-x rated at 100 ISO which came to about 18-20 minutes at 68deg with presoak, one minute inital agitation, then every two minutes therafter. Those negatives were very nice and easy to work with. That was when I first experimented with the Zone system a few years ago. Now I wish I had a 4X5 now :-) lol.
I remember one test I did with 4X5 film when I was a student. I exposed the neg at around f22 and a quick click on/off from the enlarger and I got a really nice positive on 4X5 neg tri-x it looked really neat. The click click method had to be right, I figured around 1/10- 1/30 of a second or how ever fast response times are.
Thanks for your time.