Mixing Stop Bath to Print a Contact Sheet

Video Transcript

"So the next step in me setting up my line of chemistry is good old Stop Bath. Now I made this one ounce of Stop from the bottle to sixteen ounces of water and I'm just going to pour on my stop in the tray. And again, Stop Bath has that real kind of strong, nasty odor that I don't really like so much. So don't, you don't want to stand right over the tray when you're pouring it in. The other thing about the Stop Bath that I made is this is Kodak Indicator Stop Bath. Meaning that when it turns purple that means the Stop Bath is exhausted or it's no good, and you can see that purple with the amber light on. So you always want to keep aware of that. Just another thing about the way I'm setting up my chemistry is I always want to make it run from, you know downstream, and I don't ever want to get any of the same chemicals in the tray. That will contaminate it. So especially your Stop Bath and your Fix, you really want to keep them away from your developer. If you get even a tiny drop of those two chemicals in your developer, you'll probably ruin all your developer. So you really want to be careful when you're setting that stuff up."