Fixer for Black & White Film

Video Transcript

"This is a chemical called fixer and this chemical is the chemical that essentially allows your film to be open to the light. It's a very important part of this process. This container probably costs about twenty dollars and you make it one to four. Again meaning that I would actually get four amounts of this to use, which is excellent, lasts a long time. You can reuse fixer. One note about fixer, when you walk into a darkroom and you smell that smell, it's fixer, it does not smell pretty at all and it will also stain your clothes and ruin anything that you are wearing if you get any one it. So it's incredibly important not to wear anything that you really care about when you are using this photo chemistry. Another really important fact about fixer is please don't ever pour it down the drain. For ecological reasons, fixer is horrible for the environment, its not, it's not good at all. There's a little bit of silver in your fixer. If you recycle it, you can actually save a little bit of money by learning to recycle."