new to forum, could please use some help

RobC said:

Well perhaps if you have never heard it before then you're not as well informed or smart as you think you are. This is illustrated by the fact that the quote has the authors name at the end of it but in your ignorance you have ignored that.

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Then if Michael Gudzinowicz quoted it, it must be correct

RobC said:

Well perhaps if you have never heard it before then you're not as well informed or smart as you think you are. This is illustrated by the fact that the quote has the authors name at the end of it but in your ignorance you have ignored that.

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I repeat.

you guys were a great help thank you!

it worked!

i used a little more developer

burped my tank

and agitated with inversion 5s/30s. also went straight to stop after dev instead of water in between



THANKS APUG COMMUNITY

By changing several things, you don't know what it was that did it.

But he has a better process than he had before. Go forth and do good things.

We often hear that a stopbath is needed to stop development immediately. The difference between a water rinse and a stopbath is negligible compared to the total development time. A stopbath is only really needed for FB papers which have a larger carryover into the fix. This is done only to protect the fixer pH and no other reason.

i understand the value in only changing one thing at a time to hone in on specific errors.
i dont think i changed so many things as to be left unsure as to what i was previously doing incorrectly. burping my tank, for example, wasnt my savior. or adding more developer. my real changes in process were agitation technique/time, and using stop right away instead of water then stop after developing. out of those two changes, my previous negative didnt show signs of developer not being stopped in a timely fashion, so i feel comfortable ruling that out as the difference. what worked was changing my agitation technique. maybe i should have stuck with 10s per min agitation though. ill go back to that. besides, i can get more little things done with 50 seconds than i can with 25

thanks sirius!

gerald i wasnt using stop pervious to running into an agitation issue and negatives came out fine. ill probably return to water only after the chemical runs out and see what happens.