Short washing times for films

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I saw a .pdf which described a way to wash films using vastly less water. I've forgotten where I saw it. Any help would be much appreciated Yaakov Asher Sinclair.

-- Yaakov Asher Sinclair (sinclair@actcom.co.il), December 13, 2000

Answers

With the use of Heico Perma Wash, they state that you can get away with somewhere around a 30 second wash +-

-- Scott Walton (scotlynn@shore.net), December 13, 2000.

I use RO (pure) water and fill and dump the tank 3 times in 10 minutes. Pure water has a great affinity for hypo, much more than tap water. I learned this trick from an old timer at Kodak many years ago, the same one that told me about developing slide film in C41 soup.

-- Bill Brady (wmbrady@olg.com), December 17, 2000.

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