It may be fine for newspapers, where the prints are consdered to be 'temporary',
and where you are in a hurry. For prints, the stop bath gives you more
consistant control over development and greatly extended fixer life. Prints that
skip the stop bath definatly have a decreased life. Other than for a period
shooting for college annual I have alwasy used stop bath for prints and still
do.
Jim Couch
Mike Cormier wrote:
> A quick survey: How many people out there even use stop? I worked at a
> newspaper for years & we never even had the stuff. Everyone just developed,
> fixed immediately, and washed. The head of the photo department also had
> his own portrait studio & he always used to say "stop bath is for anal
> retentive A****les".
>
> I've done it both ways & NEVER noticed a difference. Usually used either
> HC110 or T-max RS developper and Kodak Fast Fixer.
>
> What is everyone else's take on this?
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