[LargeFormat] Processing 4X5 recommandations

[Robert Mayrand]

On 12/30/01 10:13 PM, "Les Newcomer" <lnphoto@twmi.rr.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> Stein wrote:
>> 
>> Dear Friends,
>> 
> The question of processing has gone
>> into deep tanks and nitrogen bursts. Wonderful stuff, as I have an old Kodak
>> processing book from the 50's that illustrates it.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Hey Uncle dick!  I'm just getting my nitro set up, well set up. Any
> chance I could get xerox copies of that book, or at least the nitro
> part?  I'll pay for copying, and shipping and will owe you lunch.
> 
> 
> Les
> 
> 
I'm the one who started this link but now it's way out of my league!!! ;-)
My main concern is to have something that do not use a lot of chemicals, and
is easy to use. So I guess that the big tank are out of the question. That
leaves us with tray or drum. I'm a bit nervous about tray processing, so I
guess I'll go with drum. I read somewhere that there is a plan in some book
to do simple drum, unless someone got some jobo for sale I think I'll have
to go this way. What size exactly are the 2509n jobo 4x5 reels? So that Ican
build the drum the right size....or do the plan also provide a device for
holding the film.  Anybody got a copy of this article?

Thanks again for the wealth of information!!

Robert 
Mtl, Quebec





> I am old enough to know that you should not eat and drink in the
>> darkroom and I am old enough not to care. I am satisfied when I do not sip
>> the stopbath by mistake.
> 
> Never had much of a problem with the taste of stop bath, straight hypo
> has rather cheap taste in my opinion, rapid fix has a rather nasty back
> bite and awful aftertaste. Haven't tried the Photo Formulary's non acid
> fix yet.  :-)
> 
> 
> 
>>     Uncle Dick
>> 
>>  PS:     I learned something. Last night I tried doubling up the Combiplan
>> holder for development of 12 films rather than 6. I like it - the holder is
>> stiffer and less likely to sway. I hade to seperate the sheets for a bit of
>> fixing after the main fixation to clear the back surface of the film, but
>> the whole thing went quite well.
> 
> 
> 
> Every time I tried to speed up the process by doubling up I ended up
> wasting any time gained by seperating the film to fix the back.
> 
> Les
> 
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