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Ole · 07-05-2005, 03:43 AM

I've had pink films from buffered developers and near-neutral fixer, but not from high pH developers (like Neofin) and alkaline fix. An afterbath in HCA might help in decolorising the pink dye. More fixing doesn't necessarily help, it looks to me to be more of a pH issue.

07-05-2005, 03:43 AM	#128 (permalink)
Ole Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Bergen, Norway Posts: 8,720 Blog Entries: 1	I've had pink films from buffered developers and near-neutral fixer, but not from high pH developers (like Neofin) and alkaline fix. An afterbath in HCA might help in decolorising the pink dye. More fixing doesn't necessarily help, it looks to me to be more of a pH issue. __________________ -- Ole Tjugen, Luddite Elitist Norway