[LargeFormat] sheet film developing

[Rei Shinozuka]

on "hairy"'s suggestion, i tried out the combi tank.

my first results were good, except that i was overzealous
during agitation and the films slid out of their tracks.
(fortunately i only did one on each side, so outside
of a little scratching, the films were OK)

you need to be a bit gentle when inverting these guys.

-rei


> From: hairy possum <pleohmy@yahoo.com>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I use the Combi tanks for my 4x5 film.  B&H has them
> for $59 I believe.
> 
> Someone posted an idea for filling them quicker some
> time ago, I will recap it for you now.  It really
> makes filling the tank lots quicker.
> 
> When you put the top on the tank, make sure both
> spouts are on the same side of the tank.  To fill the
> tank, lay it on its side, with the spout at the bottom
> of the tank pointing upwards.  Take the caps off both
> spouts, put the funnel on the spout that is pointing
> upwards.
> 
> Now you can pour your chemicals in, and there is no
> slow down waiting for the air to come past the ingoing
> liquid.  
> 
> This was not original with me, and I thank whomever
> posted it originally.
> 
> 
> What I have done now is accumulate enought tanks over
> time that I have the chemicals in the extra tanks,
> turn off the lights, remove the rack from the tank
> holding the film, insert in the developer tank, then
> the stop bath tank, then the fixer tank.  All this is
> done with the lights off.  However you can turn the
> lights on if you put the top on each tank immediately
> after you insert the rack holding the film into each
> tank.
> 
> I recently bought a couple of plastic containers from
> Wal Mart for around $4 each, I put the stop bath in
> one and the hypo clearing in the other.   I chose
> those because 1. the stop bath step is quickly done,
> 2. the hypo clearing is done after the negs are fixed
> and washed, so the light won't hurt the film then.
> 
> I hope this helps you, if you have questions, please
> email me, or post to this group, I usually get here
> every day.
> 
> Good luck, good shooting.
> 
> Lauvone
> 
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Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
Ridgewood, New Jersey