Alpha_Geist wrote:
This leads to my question on pre washing. Do you pre wash prior to development at all, or only for certain film stocks? I mainly shot TMAX 400TMY(?) and was told to always pre wash the film before developing, and have been doing so for all my films. I do recall seeing a bluish/purple dye when washing TMAX though.
IIRC (it's been almost 20 years), I eventually prewashed TMAX film due to the residual purple tint to the film base that sometimes didn't come out after fixing (IIRC it depended on the freshness of the fixer?). I may also have prewashed Agfa APX.... IIRC, compared to other films it had a stronger tendency to get pinholes even with standard agitation for 5-10 seconds every minute.
I'm in an environment where tap water is rarely too warm. I recall way, way back when I was pretty new to home processing, that I did a batch of Tri-X and washed it with straight out of the tap cold water... in the middle of winter. Massive reticulation, haha.