Recent content by DutchDarkroom

Thanks for your message, I got the camera free, sending it for repairs is not worth it for me because I don't plan on regularly using it.

I can't find it here either, definitely a interesting source though... Thanks!

Here are some pictures: The top plate View from underneath the big knob The spring inside the knob visible when i poke it with a screwdriver The rod with slit where the spring goes in, in found it in the hole visible in previous picture, slit seems to be where the spring attaches, at the...

Hey all, don't know if anyone has experience with these camera's but I might as well try. I took a leningrad camera home from the store I work at, mostly because it's cool.The camera is not functioning, a colleague probably overwound it while testing. I took off the top plate and can see the...

Thanks for your reply, I took the film out of the reels before putting them in a adoflo solution i made first, 1-2 drops, no bubbles. I put it in there for about 30 seconds, as per the manufacturers instructions.

Thanks for the reply, I just tried this on a leader from the film i developed that had marks on it. I put it into distilled water with a drop of dreft dishwashing soap for a couple minutes. The leader has very bad marks now, can't get it on camera but it kind of looks like the image i attached...

I am using plastic (jobo) reels, washed for 20 minutes in normal water using a paterson force film washer.

My best theory now is the adoflo caused these white drop like spots. These rinse off pretty well in distilled water but because I don't use photoflo I get drying marks because of uneven drying. No clue if this theory is correct but it's the only one i can think off.

Putting the film in distilled water for 10 mins and then shaking really well and hanging to dry helped best with these marks before so i'm doing that right now.

So the rinse in distilled water didn't remove all marks, rinsing again didn't help much further. I decided this was about as good as it will get and sleeved the negatives to prevent further dust and scratches. I developed another roll and used the following finishing procedure: 20 mins wash...

Rinsed all the films now, shaked them and hung them up to dry. They all have mostly small drops on them, they do seem a bit curvy though (across the length of the film). Hope they dry well, i guess i'll see tomorrow...

I guess we had a similar idea at the same time. The only factor i had not yet excluded was the adoflo, so i decided to take a roll into deionized water for 5 mins, shake it well and hang to dry. Way less watermarks now, maybe 2 or 3 on the entire roll. Still not ideal but that i can take off...

A photo of the drying marks for reference, about this much is everywhere on the roll. The drying marks are not (or barely) visible without flashlight, with flashlight they are a bit more visible than shown here.

The test has dried after using acetic acid in the following process: pre soak water 3 min stopbath adox acetic acid 1+19 5 min wash 20 mins water demineralised water 2 mins demineralised water 2 drops adoflo 1 min hang to dry i overshot the adoflo a bit but the result doesn't seem to come from...