NEWB - What am I doing wrong?? horrible water streaks on mf

Philip A Litkw said:

. Problem solved, I think. I was hanging the film to dry in the furnace/mechanical room and I suspect that the fan was kicking up dust sticking to the wet film - quick re-rinse took care of that. - wipe marks of course were on the scanner - Doh!!!
Oh - the tri-x and rodinal is because I am an old guy and it is what I used to know - never a problem in 35 mm, mind you, back in the day we were not scanning our negatives. Salted, yes to further slow the reaction of the developer which will change the tonal range grain, but like salted caramel it is likely an acquired taste

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Ok, how do you do this? I mean there's no better place to find out than here. I'd like to try. Gotta be iodine free table salt? Kosher salt? Rocksalt? Himalayan pink pebbles? How much? What temp? How long? What dilution? Rinse? Stop bath?

I should lay off the coffee.

Cholentpot said:

Ok, how do you do this? I mean there's no better place to find out than here. I'd like to try. Gotta be iodine free table salt? Kosher salt? Rocksalt? Himalayan pink pebbles? How much? What temp? How long? What dilution? Rinse? Stop bath?

I should lay off the coffee.

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Do a search on You Tube, but I think it was like 25g or 30g per liter and I'm pretty sure it was non-iodized salt or even maybe pickling salt. Can't remember?

Cholentpot said:

Ok, how do you do this? I mean there's no better place to find out than here. I'd like to try. Gotta be iodine free table salt? Kosher salt? Rocksalt? Himalayan pink pebbles? How much? What temp? How long? What dilution? Rinse? Stop bath?

I should lay off the coffee.

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No, definitely not - today is a coffee day for sure.
well - I am no expert but the idea is to only place as much developer in as you need to develop the film, you are using the developer to exhaustion, so things like temp and concentrations and quite possibly even time do not matter as much (though the developer to react differently in the highlights vs shadows so I am sure there is some really kewl stuff you can do with that, but I am no where near ready to start experimenting with that) I was using 15 grams of salt - iodine free as close to pure NACL as I could get without spending actual money because I am cheap. I am using a Paterson tank so to the total 500ml I added 5ml of blazinol and 15g of sea salt so I guess that would be ~1:100 blazinol and 30g/lt of salt all at room temperature ish - I agitated for 10 seconds at the start sit for 30 minutes agitate for 10 seconds sit for 30 minutes. water for stop bath ilford rapid fix as per instructions water rinse

Semi stand with 15g of salt.

Did you dissolve the salt first? What is the goal of the salt?

There was an idea proposed some years ago by Patrick Gainer that adding salt to a working strength solution of Rodinal would produce finer grain. This was inferred from what happens with Microdol and Perceptol. However these developers and their usage are quit different from Rodinal.

Gee starting out in developing film using a cockamamie developer and a nonstandard developing method. What's wrong here?

I watched this Rodinal/salt video few years ago and love his darkroom but I never bothered trying the salt mix myself....