Re: Overexposed negatives

I've only used it once... to take the stem off a flower against a back
blackground. I started by mixing solution A and B together (according to
the instructions) and couldn't get it to do anything at all. I asked on
usenet, and Richard Knoppow advised to just use solution A alone, then soak
the neg. in fixer after you're done reducing. I had to use quite a few
applications (of solution A) before I even started to see any effect.

I don't know what it will do to your shadows. Unless somebody who has used
it more offers advice, I would try it on an unimportant neg. from the roll
and see what happens.

John

----- Original Message -----
From: "Guy Glorieux" <guy.glorieux@sympatico.ca>
To: "Pinhole List" <pinhole-discussion@pinhole.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 9:05 AM
Subject: [pinhole-discussion] Overexposed negatives

> Hi all,
>
> I just shot a couple of rolls of 120 B&W film with my pinhole camera and
> they turned out to be massively overexposed (due to my own error).
>
> Any suggested treatment from anybody? I hear that the stuff to use is
> Farmer's Reducer but I've never used it. Does anyone have experience
> with this chemical? Does it remove density uniformely across the
> negative? I guess I'm worried about losing the shadow area before the
> highlights become light enough to be printable.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Guy
>
>
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Received on Sat Jun 16 12:58:47 2001