Neopan SS (100) purple base?

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I've been shooting some Neopan 100 (SS), processing in HC-110 and find that the negatives seem to be on a purple (rather than clear) base. Fixing or wshing for longer times doesn't seem to change anything. I recall that T-Max films did this if you didn't fix/wash for long enough. With Neopan 100 is this "normal" or am I missing something.

BTW the Neopan is fresh (i.e. not past the exp. date), though I think it has been discontinued now.

-- Bob Atkins (bobatkins@hotmail.com), August 19, 1999

Answers

Mmmmmm...the purple film controversy. I had just posted a response to the thread above regarding the same problem with T-grain films. Fix for 10 minutes...wash till clear. That should solve your problem.

-- Tony Novak-Clifford (photoho@mauigateway.com), August 20, 1999.

You can only know whether Fuji is purple if you used fresh fixer, I never heard of it thus far. If you first used the fixer for Delta or T-max, you'll get purple Fuji too.

-- Lot (lotw@wxs.nl), August 21, 1999.

I wouldn't worry about it, or try to remove by over fixing. Have you noticed all the over-fixers on this site? If it ain't broke don't.. well you know the rest. :-)

The Efke films and who knows, do they mfg the Neopan?? (maybe we'll get an answer) Especially KB-25 in HC-110 are notoriously purplehaze. whoops, purple base. The Adox KB-14 was too. Freestyle tech gets purple KB-25. If you soup your Neopan in PMK (which I have never done) you probably won't get the purple (KB-25/PMK=nopurple) but I doubt you'll get the infamous yellow/green/brown stain. Either/eye there.

So the only thing you are missing is the end of this post which for some reason got infamousl

-- Larry Welker (lwelker@turbont.net), August 26, 1999.


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