Dust on my 400tx/Tri-X w/some light spots. Not every time, but almost

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I develop film in my lavatory & download my film in a Harrison Changing Bag.

 

I rinse all my beakers with cold water from the tap. Once dry them I mix my chemicals & use them right away. I will reuse the stop & fix over & over again. I pour these two chemicals back into my airtight/collapsible AP Jugs for later use. When I recycle the stop, the fix, the hypo-clear; I store them for no longer than 2 months. My lavatory is a 5star hotel lavatory. Very clean & clinical. My Harrison Changing bag is shaken inside-out; so it's clean as well.

 

With all this info & my working methods, ( I wear very low static t-shirts & good black jeans; the term for the attire is: SHOW BLACKS).

 

 

So recently I am seeing small hairs; some minute scratching & much dust spots that seem to be embedded into the negative after I dry her. Of course, I use a 1 ear drop full of Kodaks Photo-Flo as a finish to my negs. I let them hang to dry in a pretty clean room w hardly any ventilation @ room-temperature. Thoughts on how I might remedy this?

 

 

& the second question: I own a 135mm-M-f2.8, v.3 w/attached goggles. It is by LEITZ, Midland, Ontario. I put it up on my LEICA mp & I see the magnifier work just swell. However, when developing some photo & then making contacts, subjects somehow ended up in most of my shots. What I mean is that it was only the tip of a hat, or a hand jetting into frame even though I was sure my cropping in my camera, (by me). The subjects aren't grossly in the frame; just riding the edged depending on my luck & sometimes I crop a pic, (in camera with that leitz 135mmf2.8-M- v.3). I have heard that various different frame-lines; some are more accurate than others? Is that a true statement? I was once told that the LEICA m4 had the best framelines & were the most bloody accurate. Is that perhaps true.

 

Lastly, dug ur interview. Amazing. We need you here in US to brainstorm to make things better & support the artist, or a Vision; instead of design by committee

[andybarton]

Sounds to me like you might have a fixer problem. You can't just reuse it over and over again as it gets exhausted.

 

I once tried to push the life of my fixer too far and was amazed at the amount of silver lumps in the bottle. These will affect the fixing of the negatives, and exhausted fixer either won't work, or will take much longer to fix.

 

I no longer fix more than 10 films with fresh fixer and then discard it.

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