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🔗 Salt Fix

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Very good results with Caffenol + Salt fix. Takes crazy amount of time though (48 hours with random agitation others report 72 hours). Makes it possible to have zero specialised or harsh chemicals to develop b&w film.

From reading Reinhold's blog about his tests with using salt as a fixer I mixed up 225g of iodized table salt into 750ml of distilled water (equivalent to 300g salt in 1L). It takes a lot of stirring to get that much salt dissolved, that's why I used distilled water, I figured that may help it dissolve. After adding the salt solution to the film I agitated it every now and then for the next 48 hours. The agitation was not on a regular schedule, just whenever I happened by and …