Creamy negatives?

[JeremyBrotherton]

Camera: Yashica-D
Film: Adox ortho 25
Dev: D-76 6mins

Problem I need help with: The negatives are a creamy white color?

I did my normal method I use when developing film. I didn't skip anything or add wrong things. So any idea why my negatives are a creamy white and not clear like they should be?


How I develop.
I do a 1 min presoak. Then after I add the developer. Every 30 seconds I tilt 5 times then tap. I use a water stop bath for 3 mins then use fixer and tilt every 60 seconds for 10 mins. After the fixer I put in hypo for 5 mins then rinse in water for 10. After I use photoflo then dry to hang.


And this works most of the time. I say most due to the creamy white negatives.


Thank you for your time.

 

[k_jupiter]

New fixer.

And what's with the spacing on that negative?



tim in san jose

 

[Dennis S]

yes check your fix. Fixer goes bad if it sits out in the open not sealed properly. I had the same problem. You can try to refix them. I am not sure if the PF can get washed off. Should be able to. I did and it worked.

 

[JeremyBrotherton]

Thank god. That worked. Thank you so much! Well the advance doesn't work right so I manually advance it to each frame.

 

[k_jupiter]

Great!

Now.. how do you know the advance doesn't work? Don't be using the red window to advance your film. If (and I could be mistaken) the Yashica uses the red window for first exposure, then uses film advance for the next 11.

Try it.

tim in san jose