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Response to Problem with spotted Tri-X

from Michael Goldfarb (mgoldfar@mobius-inc.com)
Sounds like you were just unlucky with an *extremely* uncommon occurrence: faulty Kodak film! I've developed hundreds of rolls of TX over the years in D-76 1:1 (kissing cousin to ID-11), and have never seen this situation.

BTW 1: I gave up on squeegeeing film years ago. A quick dunk in a very dilute PhotoFlo solution, then taking the film out of the tray and hanging it up IN ONE SWIFT MOTION has been working fine. Pressing rubber to a wet emulsion just seems like asking for trouble...

BTW 2: You might have overdeveloped slightly. At least in D-76 1:1 at 68, TMX and TMY go for 12 and 12-1/2 mins, respectively, and Tri-X only goes for 10. Luckily, with TX's legendary latitude and wide tolerance of errors, this should barely make a difference!

(posted 9189 days ago)

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