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John, that is why R&D in photography was fun for me, and why I can suggest to some people what tracks might lead to bad results. BTDT.
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it doesn't matter, none of it ...
if someone wants to have a good time, why not?
if someone wants to chart log curves of their film, why not?
if someone wants to process their film in their own urine, why not?
its too bad there are so many people that think having a good time
is out of the question, and everything has to be so rigid/set in stone.
in the end the only thing that matters is what matters to the person with the film and camera
If there's any chance you want the photos to be seen by your grandson's grandson, you might want to reconsider some of your workflow. I would think these are the exact type of negatives you'd want to assure become family heirlooms.Actually after lunch I am ready to process a roll using my crackpot ideas and I guarantee I am going to have fun. If the film comes out blank or there are aliens in the background then I will re-evaluate. The roll is shots of my Grandson (1y/o) at JJ"s Burgers in San Juan Bautista, Ca. He is the little man and a joy to our lives.
it doesn't matter, none of it ...
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Eddie, thank you for commenting. The truth of it is my 6 kids could care less about my negatives.. I am sure they will be happy to have the photo albums but none of them is going to spend their life scanning negatives. They are all very busy with their own affairs.
If an old man's(me) experience is anything to go by I think your kids many years from now might care a lot about your negatives.
Well I am sorry that I posted. I just wanted to try something different and see how it worked out and it appeals to me to conserve water. I can see posting here about that was a poor choice. Anyway it seems from my 2 rolls of film that the stop bath is not important and I can skip that in the future. The dish soap idea seems to be a bust and worst of all it seems necessary to waste water in quantity. Anyway good luck to you all. I will log off and say Good bye.
You're absolutely right, John! Somehow I missed the drift in the thread from the OP's search for a workflow correction to "how to have fun." My fun is when I successfully achieve a workflow that yields the print quality I desire. I've found, though, it comes from learning from those who've already done the research rather than re-inventing the wheel. If someone's goal is to simply have fun, that's his business. He can use his camera as a hammer for all I care, or splash around in the bath tub, or play in the sandbox with no other interest than just messing around. He might just stumble upon E=mc^2.
Well I am sorry that I posted. I just wanted to try something different and see how it worked out and it appeals to me to conserve water. I can see posting here about that was a poor choice. Anyway it seems from my 2 rolls of film that the stop bath is not important and I can skip that in the future. The dish soap idea seems to be a bust and worst of all it seems necessary to waste water in quantity. Anyway good luck to you all. I will log off and say Good bye.
The trouble with such experiments is sometimes you come up with the wrong conclusion. I'm reminded of the story:
There once was an scientist doing an experiment on the reactions of fleas. He had trained a flea to jump on command. The scientist would command the flea "Jump flea!" and the flea would jump. Then the scientist would proceed to pull off one of the fleas legs with a pair of tweezers and write a comment in his notebook.
The scientist did this many times until the flea had only 1 leg left. The scientist said "Jump flea" and the flea made it's best effort to jump, which the scientist recorded in his notebook.
After he pulled off its last leg, the scientist again commanded the flea to jump, and after repeating the command many times without the flea responding he jotted down in his notebook, "After the flea looses all of its legs it becomes completely deaf."
Assuming you had already read the previous posts in this thread, what sort of responses were you expecting? Complete support? You should have realized you might be opening up a can of worms, and expecting what you got instead of being disappointed.
I know I was trying to help him/her, and those who might read the thread afterwards.
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