From my first roll of home processed C-41

First, well done on the home processing. You seem to have a drying mark as well as dust on the negative.Try using distilled/filtered water with your stabilizer bath and be careful where you hang the film to dry. These films are very sticky when wet and any dust that is around will grab on!

tony lockerbie said:

First, well done on the home processing. You seem to have a drying mark as well as dust on the negative.Try using distilled/filtered water with your stabilizer bath and be careful where you hang the film to dry. These films are very sticky when wet and any dust that is around will grab on!

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Tony, Thanks for the comment. I think the marks have to be something from the stabilizer, I did use distilled water for it, but since the directions said room temperature, I paid less attention to the stabilizer than to the developer and Blix. The marks look like grains of salt and the few I touched come off with a tiny bit of rubbing but I was afraid to mess around too much for fear of scratches. They only seemed to be on the base side for some reason.

The salt sounds like a calcium precipitate, shouldn't happen with distilled water. You can wipe the wet film gently on both sides with a wettex cloth soaked in stabilizer to remove the excess, that may help.