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Warning: a Kodak lab tech told me my fixer was dead at 6 rolls, and I wasted 3 weeks blaming my camera
So I shoot a Pentax K1000 and I was getting these weird milky streaks on every roll for about 3 weeks straight, like 8 or 9 rolls down the drain. I kept tearing the camera apart, checking the light seals, even sent the lens off to a guy in Portland to get it cleaned. Then a lab tech at the camera store on 5th looked at my negatives for two seconds and said "your fixer is exhausted, man" and pulled out a bottle of Hypam that was cloudy as milk. I had been reusing the same batch since January because some guy on YouTube said you could get 20 rolls out of a liter. Turns out the real number is more like 8 to 10 rolls before it starts going bad, and mine was way past that. Anyone else get burned by following some random fixer reuse rule, or is it just me?
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ninas671mo ago
Is it weird that I kinda want to know which YouTube guy gave that advice so I can go leave a comment? Pretty sure mine was some dude with a squeaky voice and a beaker, and now my darkroom smells like a swimming pool.
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