Final Film Rinse After Development

Video Transcript

"Welcome back this is Brian on behalf of expertvillage.com. In the previous step I’ve just preformed another stop bath on the negatives to stop the fixing process, there’s still residual fixture inside the film itself it embeds itself in the cellulose and it’s necessary to get that out otherwise your film will prematurely age and discolor over time. To do that it’s simple matter of just gently running water through it for 10 minutes and that’s a really simple thing to do with this particular set up here, make sure the water is cold okay I’ll go ahead and set the timer for 10 minutes…okay notice how the water is gently running out the bottom about the side of the tank, what it’s doing it’s just going down the middle and coming up the sides and pouring out, you don’t want it to be rushing too quickly just a nice gentle stream. One of the things that’s very important also and something that’s important to bare in mind also when you’re using your rinse solutions, your fixture and your developer is they should all be within 2 degrees Fahrenheit or 1 degrees Celsius of each other, if you exceed that limit if you go from for example a 68 degree developer solution to a 75 degree fixing solution you’ll get an effective of what’s called reticulation on your film in which the grain particles actually clump together and it makes your film look grainer than it should otherwise be. So it’s a good idea to keep all your solutions within 2 degrees of each other and that includes your rinse solution, this is I measured to be 76 degrees which is right at the limit compared to the 74 degrees that we developed and fixed it at."