Re: filmscanners: Scratched Negs & Home C-41 processing

["Alan Tyson" <AlanTyson@bknowl.freeserve.co.uk>]

........> stir in about an
> ounce of boiling water from a measuring cup every 30-60
seconds,
> as needed. Crude but fairly effective. I can keep the
temperature
> between 99.5 and 100.5 for three minutes without
difficulty.

Thanks very much for the hints & info. That's the sort of
thing I did for E6, with the whole lot sitting on an ancient
second-hand warming plate meant for developing dishes.

Did you presoak the film & tank in water to get the
temperature roughly right first? That's what I used to do
with B&W and E6. Otherwise adding the developer to a
tank+film at a different temperature would give a
temperature which would never be quite right inside a mere
3-minute period.

I'm concerned that with such a short development time, it
will be difficult to keep the temperature of the actual film
reasonably near the specification without a presoak,  but
that the presoak, by pre-swelling the emulsion, might alter
the result anyway.

I suppose the fact that you've succeeded demonstrates that
it's not that critical, and what I should do is try it and
see (as usual <G>).

Alan T

----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Victor <TimVictor@csi.com>
To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 10:34 AM
Subject: RE: filmscanners: Scratched Negs & Home C-41
processing