As I mentioned in another thread, I just developed my first roll of film at home a few days ago - Tri-X 400 in HC-110. I had an initial snafu caused by a misread of the Ilford data sheet that called for a 1:4 dilution of Rapid Fixer for film rather than 1:9 that I use for paper. After realizing that mistake, I re-fixed using a 1:4 solution and re-washed. The dried film showed quite a few streaks and water spots so I did one more wash with the final rinse using distilled water (and, of course, photoflo) and most of the spots/streaks are gone.
At this point the film looked pretty good, but I noticed some intermittent dark bands/staining running vertically along both sides of the rebate. None of these marks affected the image area. I've never seen these before on any of the rolls I've had developed at a lab so I figured I'd screwed something up. But then something occurred to me - maybe these were caused by the rebate's contact with the reel and the area in contact with the reel not having an opportunity to fully fix. Of course these won't show up in my lab-developed film since the lab uses a dip-and-dunk machine. So I think I've solved that mystery, but is that a common issue with home-developed film using reels? Is everyone whose developing at home seeing these marks in the rebate? Can I assume this imperfectly fixed rebate area will have no long term affects on the film?
It's strange that in all of the reading I did about home developing before starting this I never once heard anyone mention this.
I've included a photo of the negatives to better illustrate what I'm referring to. The 'bands' in the rebate are circled in red. Ignore the wide dark bands behind the film strip, that's my iPhone freaking out when attempting to take a photo of the film strip on an LED lightpad.
At this point the film looked pretty good, but I noticed some intermittent dark bands/staining running vertically along both sides of the rebate. None of these marks affected the image area. I've never seen these before on any of the rolls I've had developed at a lab so I figured I'd screwed something up. But then something occurred to me - maybe these were caused by the rebate's contact with the reel and the area in contact with the reel not having an opportunity to fully fix. Of course these won't show up in my lab-developed film since the lab uses a dip-and-dunk machine. So I think I've solved that mystery, but is that a common issue with home-developed film using reels? Is everyone whose developing at home seeing these marks in the rebate? Can I assume this imperfectly fixed rebate area will have no long term affects on the film?
It's strange that in all of the reading I did about home developing before starting this I never once heard anyone mention this.
I've included a photo of the negatives to better illustrate what I'm referring to. The 'bands' in the rebate are circled in red. Ignore the wide dark bands behind the film strip, that's my iPhone freaking out when attempting to take a photo of the film strip on an LED lightpad.