Tried developing with tap water vs distilled for my C-41 kit

The tap water batch had weird color shifts, but the distilled one from the grocery store came out perfect. Anyone else find their local water messes with chems?

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lucas635mo ago

Yeah, water quality is a total wild card. My old place had such hard water it left a white film on everything, even clean glassware. Sandrah69 is right that a filter might help, but sometimes you just need to cut your losses and buy the jugs. I gave up and switched to distilled for anything mixing with photo chems, not worth the gamble.

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sandrah696mo ago

Couldn't your tap water just need a filter?

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sarahb596mo ago

You think a filter would fix this, @sandrah69? I tried one of those fancy pitchers and the water still tastes like it came from a rusty pipe. I'm starting to think my whole building's plumbing is just haunted.

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