Ilford Ilfotol Wetting Agent 1L

Description

Ilford Ilfotol Wetting Agent 1L

Using Ilford Ilfotol Wetting Agent will help your film to dry quickly and evenly. This will greatly reduce the risk of drying marks left on film after development. You should use it as a final rinse before you hang your film up to dry. It will allow the film to dry in a more uniform fashion and thus prevent the marks.

After development, stop, fix and wash, you simply leave your film in the wetting agent for about a minute. You then take the film out, wipe off any excess and then hang it up to dry.

While a wetting agent isn’t a vital step in developing film, it will make your life much easier when you come to scan or print your negatives. With a high dilution, a bottle will last you a long time. So, we think it’s worth the small extra cost.

Ilford Ilfotol can also be useful as a final rinse before you dry fibre base prints. Again, it will help the paper to dry quickly and evenly.

Additionally, you can use it to clean lenses and filters. It works well as an antistatic treatment.

How To Use

To prepare your wetting agent, dilute Ilford Ilfotol 1+200. That means one part Ilfotol to two-hundred parts water. The dilution is the same for both paper and film. Make sure you mix together thoroughly before use.

How To Develop Film

If you would like to learn more about developing your own film, you should read our guides How To Develop Black And White Film and How To Develop Colour Film. Both guides will walk you through each step of developing film at home.

Also, check out How To Develop Film At Home for a list of everything you’ll need. How To Prepare Film Developing Chemistry will explain how to get your chemicals ready for processing. Once you’re ready to go, find your Black And White Film Developing Times.

You can explore further and look at How To Stand Develop Film and Pushing and Pulling Film.

Film Developing Chemicals

Read our guides? Looking to stock up on film developing chemicals? We have everything you need; Developer, Stop, Fix and Wetting Agent.