Hello, everybody... A few weeks ago, I asked the list if some Agefix fixer that someone gave to me, and that must be at least 10 years beyond its sell-by date, could still safely be used. The answer was essentially, "do a clearing test"...
A couple of days ago I finally got around to doing this (after having "taken the risk" with a couple of films in the meantime.) I tested on a solution that had been used on one or to 35mm rolls already, and made out the time to be around 2 minutes, 40 seconds. This is for the "normal" film dilution, which has a recommended fixing time of 6-8 minutes. I also tested again just now, after two more rolls, including one T-MAX 400, had taken a bath in the same solution. The time had increased to nearly 4 minutes. Anyhow, based on this I can safely say that Agefix can keep for at least 10 years, don't you think? Or is there *some* way the fixer can change so that it doesn't fix the film properly even though it seems to clear all right? (This is something I also meant to ask about last time.) I think perhaps I have also verified the claim that T-MAX eats fixer, although that was not something I set out to prove... - Toralf -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
