drying 4x5 negs...

[Michael W]

A long time ago I used stainless steel hangars and tanks to develop my film. I did hang some film up in their hangars but I did not like the results: negatives sometimes stuck to the hangar when dry and at least once damaged a negative. I also did not like the uneven drying where water collected longer on the bottom of the hangars, leaving drying marks.

I had the same problem and quickly stopped using them. Now I hang the film with a clothes peg type clip at one corner. No problems.

[Leonard Evens]

I dry Ilford films by hanging each by a single plastic clothespin on its corner with the pin held to a hanger by another clothespin. I use a spnge to remove the bead of water which appears on the opposiite bottom corner of the sheet. They dry fine that way without any significant curl.

[Jody_S]

Clothespins on wire hangers on shower curtain rod. If I'm worried about dust, I shower before hanging them up to dry, that cleans 99% of the dust out of the room. Plus it removes the smell of Rapid Fix, which my wife does not find sexy.