{"id":31271,"date":"2025-04-21T01:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=31271"},"modified":"2025-04-30T01:10:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T05:10:04","slug":"easing-tension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/easing-tension\/","title":{"rendered":"easing tension"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_31273\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/c1935.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31273\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31273\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/c1935-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31273\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">c1935 ragamuffins play street hockey to ease tension<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. In a recent post I discussed techniques used on <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/dry-your-photos-mdear\/\">post washed prints<\/a> to remove any excess water and treat the surface. The effect of ignoring post washing processes on film &#8211; especially 35mm or smaller &#8211; is even more drastic.<\/p>\n<p>Surface tension causes droplets of water to cling to the film and once evaporated, these droplets leave a mark on the film &#8211; especially if the water or air or both are impure.<\/p>\n<p>This can be solved by using a wetting agent in the wash bath to ease the natural surface tension. Kodak uses the trade mark &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Kodak-Photo-Flo-200-Solution-16oz\/dp\/B00K335F6S\">Photo-Flo<\/a>&#8216; on its product. So all you niche film folk, be aware of how you can ensure your negatives are as clean as possible before enlarging.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, the phenomenon of water tension and wetting agents is aptly handled by this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=97vkRo7JHbU\">5 minute Youtube video<\/a>. And remember, visit our 2025 events (see PHSC EVENTS at right) for additions to your collection and user gear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. In a recent post I discussed techniques used on post washed prints to remove any excess water and treat the surface. The effect of ignoring post washing processes on film &#8211; especially 35mm or smaller &#8211; is even more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/easing-tension\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[286,14,2121,930],"class_list":["post-31271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-darkroom","tag-film","tag-negative","tag-processing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31362,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31271\/revisions\/31362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}