I got to your video after purchasing the bottle of this fixer and reading all those forum posts about the difference between acidic and alkaline fixers :) Great video as always! As others pointed out, alkaline fixers come hand in hand with a Pyro developer :) It would be great to see a video about 510 Pyro for example. Thanks!
Absolutely! I'm probably going to cover C-41 chems and at least one B&W dev first so I have more time to really get familiar with pyro devs, but we'll see how it pans out. :)
Pyrocat-HD and alkaline fixers have become my favorite dev/fixer combo. Been using Moersch and TF-5. You get used to the smell, part of the charm of film photography.
I've heard good things about TF-5 but I work with enough malodorous stuff that I try to avoid it at home where I can. The Moersch ARR is quite a bit more readily accessible for me too which is a big thing.
Hey! This is probably one of the safest options, but any neutral or alkaline fixer would be better than an acidic fixer if that's your concern. It won't help with disposing of it though :)
At the end you mentioned that it won’t replace Ilford Rapid Fixer for you, but you will keep it around to use it where it suits. Is there any reason not to use this all the time? The long shelf life sounds great to me, I always end up throwing away half bottles of fixer concentrate…
At the time I made that video, Ilford Rapid Fixer was about €3 cheaper per 1 L bottle and as I do a lot of technical testing I try to minimise variables, so one thing is always using IRF for consistency. Nowadays it's about €2 more than the Moersch stuff so I use them more or less interchangeably.
I really didn’t know about it, thanks for the video, very helpful 😊
Another excellent video! Thank you 👏
I got to your video after purchasing the bottle of this fixer and reading all those forum posts about the difference between acidic and alkaline fixers :) Great video as always!
As others pointed out, alkaline fixers come hand in hand with a Pyro developer :) It would be great to see a video about 510 Pyro for example. Thanks!
It's on the list for this series for sure - James has made sure of that :)
Thanks, learned quite a lot of useful stuff. Will you make such a video about Pyro developers?
Absolutely! I'm probably going to cover C-41 chems and at least one B&W dev first so I have more time to really get familiar with pyro devs, but we'll see how it pans out. :)
Pyrocat-HD and alkaline fixers have become my favorite dev/fixer combo. Been using Moersch and TF-5. You get used to the smell, part of the charm of film photography.
I've heard good things about TF-5 but I work with enough malodorous stuff that I try to avoid it at home where I can. The Moersch ARR is quite a bit more readily accessible for me too which is a big thing.
Hi, do you have any recommendations for “safe” fixers?
Hey! This is probably one of the safest options, but any neutral or alkaline fixer would be better than an acidic fixer if that's your concern. It won't help with disposing of it though :)
At the end you mentioned that it won’t replace Ilford Rapid Fixer for you, but you will keep it around to use it where it suits. Is there any reason not to use this all the time? The long shelf life sounds great to me, I always end up throwing away half bottles of fixer concentrate…
At the time I made that video, Ilford Rapid Fixer was about €3 cheaper per 1 L bottle and as I do a lot of technical testing I try to minimise variables, so one thing is always using IRF for consistency. Nowadays it's about €2 more than the Moersch stuff so I use them more or less interchangeably.
@@Shaka1277 Thanks! I will check if I can get this or something similar here in Taiwan.
Well, to be odorless is the number 1 reason for me, though.
Agreed, it makes a big difference in "practical" terms.