From: Jeff Callen (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Apr 26 2004 - 10:43:54 PDT
RE: Reticulation
I've found temperature variation more effective than chemicals.
going from a VERY cold wash or fix, to a very hot wash and back again will do
it.... but it's hard to be controlled, sometimes you just get a mess and some
almost-clear film, so I'd experiment a lot.
Kodak may have tweeked recent film bases to avoid reticulation, in 35mm still
film, TMX is harder to reticulate than Plus-X.
Jeff Callen
Instructor UGDIV 3015
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Quoting Ken Paul Rosenthal <email suppressed>:
> I've been trying to reticulate my film using a simple solution of sodium
> carbonate mono and water, but to no avail. The instructions seem extremely
> straightfoward, but regardless of time, temp, amount of carbonate, I get no
> effect.
>
> The film I'm trying to radically reticulate (crack) is 7363 hand-processed
> in D-19, no hardener in the fix.
>
> Short of acid, which I'd rather not experiment with (for this project),
> does
> anyone have any advice on how to reticulate. I'm hoping to push it to the
> extent that I get 'veiling'; a lifting of the emulsion right off the base.
>
> Feel free to contact me off-line.
>
> Thanks, Ken
>
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