>From Barry Bean:
> >1) My darkroom is on a well, and instead of using bottled water this
> >time, I used hard water from the tap. Could the well water (hard, but
> >run through a softener) have had a reaction with the chemistry?
> >
Reply, Dirk Wright:
>
> yes, it can I believe. Use distilled only for chemistry.
>
I wrote to EK's tech folks not too long ago about this -- they said most
city tap water (U.S.) was actually preferred over distilled. You might
want to write them and confirm, but I suspect the chemicals added by a
softener-system would not be recommended anyway. I doubt that was your
problem, though.
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