Response to Curling Negatives

Attach light weights, such as a clothespin or two, to the bottom ends of the rolls when you hang them to dry. This reduces the film's rolling up from the ends, which seems most pronounced in 35mm film and can complicate cutting and inserting the film into sleeves and negative carriers. Even if you reduce this sort of curling, the film will be somewhat concave in the narrow dimension as the emulsion dries and tries to draw the sprocket holes together. This seems to be permanent but is no great inconvenience.

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