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Oh oh, didn't water stop, before fix..

peter k.

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Ha,, first time have done this, didn't do my normal stop rinse with water. For some dumb reason grabbed the brown bottle of fixer, instead of the clear open water beaker. Threw out the fixer after fixing the single 2x3 neg, so no big loss. Neg is drying, looks ok.. so except for reusing the fixer, any big deal?
 
None as far as I know. Going straight from developer to fixer simply shortens the life of the fixer a little but this is irrelevant in your case

pentaxuser
 
ced said:
Do it all the time!
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Hahaha.. having a senior moment, or just not using a stop bath...

Thanks guys, didn't think it any big deal, and it wasn't, .. isn't, and will most likely never will be, unless we grab the fixer before developer, now that would be a bad dog no bone senior moment.
 
pentaxuser said:
None as far as I know. Going straight from developer to fixer simply shortens the life of the fixer a little but this is irrelevant in your case

pentaxuser
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What he said. +1
 
Isn't it possible (if using an alkaline fix) that development would continue in the fix and cause dichroic fog? The risk would be particularly high if one made a regular practice of skipping a stop/rinse due to developer carryover into the fixer. I'm glad that everything turned out, but I would continue to include a stop or rinse in the process.
 
Maybe, but it was a one off thing, and depends on the film, the developer, and the fixer.
 
Well for discussion used D76 1:1, llford Rapid fixer, and film was Arista 400 @ 200, and will continue to use tap water for stop. .
 
from what i understand, and i might understand wrongly/incompletely ...
the stop bath does 2 things, it stops development and saves the fixer from
getting exhaused too soon from having developer carried over into it ..
water instead of stop, doesn't stop development and it lessens the carry over
of developer into the fix ... going directly from developer to fix
pretty much doesn't stop development and your fix has extra developer in it
( seeing you use water usually ) ... the only effect you might have seen is
that the development might not have stopped where you thought
it might have stopped ...
again, im not a developer scientist .. so take my post with a grain of salt /.
 
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