Recent content by Mani_Reshad

Actually we have Ilford Rapid Fixers here in Iran but they’re insanely expensive and no product of Kodak is to be found here(not at least as much as Ilford) and obviously no C-41 chemicals such as its fixer and these are the reasons I‘m going for the DIY option. In fact it is cheaper to get your...

I'm honestly trying to be independent of any commercial chemistry and fixer is a important step to that. I very appreciate your answer and would like to ask some questions about this formula. What are the Dilutions and how much do they vary between paper and film? and also what is the normal...

Hey there everyone! I've been wondering how to cook up my own fixers and I've came across many formulas. Well all I know is that I'm out here looking for a formula working similarly as Ilford's Rapid Fixer. I would be really glad to know what options I'd have.

I know; I‘m actually developing for a friend and they specifically asked for this

Hey everyone! I wanted to develop some FP4 in D-19 and I was wondering what the development times are. Both at the box speed and also pushed to ASA 400 if possible. Thanks for the replies in advance.

Dan Daniel said that it the dust and debris deposited from inside of the camera and managed to get on the film surface prior to the photographing stage and when I took photographs, those little particles of dust were photogrammed onto the picture and naturally removed during the development stage.

Yeah as I said before, there was no dust and debris during the scanning process and I actually redidthe scan a couple of times to make sure; as Dan Daniel said, it’s the dust inside of the below which somehow got on the film surface and was in fact photogrammed onto the emulsion prior the lighting.

Thanks a bunch, honestly I‘m relieved to hear this. I‘d rather have my whole belows replaced than to have difficulties with my lenses since it costs much less to do so. But I think that the problem will be resolved by a cleaning process since this was the first roll that was shot with this...

I honestly thought the same. But I developed and scanned it myself so I thought I’d clean out the dust and rescan it right away but when I went to the negatives these were part of the negatives, and they were photographed onto the emulsion and the thing that amazed me is the the lens is so sharp...

Hey everyone! I bought this Mamiya C200 a while ago and I took some photos and developed it just to realise that there’s something wrong with the lens and since I‘ve never spent any time out of the darkroom and on repairing cameras and lenses, I was wondering what are these things on my pictures...

Hey everyone! I was looking forward to shooting some Ilford Mark V and to my knowledge it was tested and it is supposed to be shooted at ASA 100. I know that there’s remjet that needs to be removed prior to development but I was wondering what are the development times; I was also wondering if...

Hey there everyone! I was wondering what would be a good film stock for a project of multiple exposures. What does even make a film good for double exposure? To my knowledge and up until now I’ve been using medium speed films(because of the multiple exposures) and low contrast films/developers...

Hey there everyone! I’ve been digging this „PC-TEA“ developer with the dilution of 1+50 and using the development times for 1+1 D-76 which was recommended in „the darkroom cookbook“ and as it was mentioned in that book, this obscure recipe is supposed to have some kind of super fine-grain...

Hey there everyone! Mixing developers from scratch usually requires 50-52C temperature and I was wondering what would happen if this requirement was pushed up to 70 or even 100 centigrade degrees. Does it mess with the developer and there’s a limit to how warm you can get the developer to be or...

Would it be an inconvenience for you to share the results with me whenever you do so? I’m really eager to try 510-pyro since I have easier access to it rather than Pyrocat-HD.