Josh66
Been spending a lot of time on here!
- Joined
- Oct 31, 2007
- Messages
- 14,593
- Reaction score
- 1,239
- Location
- Cedar Hill, Texas
- Can others edit my Photos
- Photos NOT OK to edit
:scratch:
Why do you need distilled water for stop bath? It's not drying on the film or anything. There's way more crap floating around in once-used developer or once-used fixer, for instance, than in tap water. 24 L of tap = 1 penny
In actuality, I find it annoying to funnel my stop bath back into the container, and usually only use it once or maybe twice, so the cost matter more too for that reason.10 minutes of my time and a week for delivery is not a big deal for me when I'm buying something I'll still be using 2 years later. Not sure about you, but it takes me a long time to shoot that many rolls of film.
I just use distilled water for everything. I had water quality issues once, so I don't want to take any chances now. Water is too cheap to worry about the difference in cost of tap water vs. distilled water.
The only thing I don't use distilled water for is washing. Fixer and stop bath are the only chemicals I ever reuse, and my funnel has a wire mesh filter in it. (Well, for B&W anyway. I obviously reuse everything in a C-41 kit till it's expended.)
