Efke 25 & spots

[JSmith]

Just posted a 5x7 neg scan in the tec. gallery. It has undeveloped spots all over it this is the same lot that J&C sold as late dated before they started their move. Anyone had this happen before?

 

[noseoil]

I've shot a fair amount of efke 25 in the last 5 years and never had this problem. I have shot some out of date film (in both 35mm & 4x5) without any visible defects. Richard had asked about the image and your stop bath in a post to the gallery. Did you use an acid stop or just water? The surface of this film is very soft in general, so it requires a soft touch all the way through when processing. This is with respect to ph, temperature and agitation.

Are there more sheets with this problem in the box, or was it just one? tim

 

[doughowk]

Other than pinprick holes in emulsion, I haven't had any problems with Efke 25 (wish I could say the same for Efke 100). Pinpricks would show as black dots on print; and I presume you're talking about the white spots on rock area to right. Dust on or in emulsion would be my guess. Have you tried to print the neg (eliminating scanner defects)?

 

[JSmith]

Thanks for the replys. I have used this film before with good results, even a few sheets from this box with no problem. Water soak,dev.,water stop. The spots on the negative are not pin holes just undeveloped areas. I think I will buy new water, new developer,fresh everything before I soup my backup shot. Thanks

 

[JSmith]

Sorry Doughowk I meant to add that the spots that concern me are the dark dots in the water.they are also on the rocks but blend in there.

 

[doughowk]

A few years ago I had a roll of Kodak film processed by Kodak that looked exactly like your image - black specs sprinkled throughout the print/scan image. The only thing I could figure out is that they may have dumpted it into too acidic of a stop bath. So I don't think its a film manufacturer problem. Since then I do all my own processing, and usually use TF-4 which only needs a water stop bath.