I've been doing roll film for a long time, but I just started shooting 4x5 film. I don't know what is normal, because I'm learning myself how to do all this sheet film stuff.
So far I've just developed my film individually in the same 8x10 trays I use for prints. At 6-10 minutes per sheet this means a lot of standing around in the dark. I have heard that people stack sheets up and shuffle them from the bottom to the top, but I don't think I could do that in the dark without scratching them with the corners and I don't understand how agitation is supposed to work when the sheets are all stuck together.
After fixing I rinse them individually in a thousand little dishes, again because I'm afraid of putting them in one dish together, and then I dip them in photoflo and then hang them up by the corner with binder clips. When the solution is running off, I notice a lot of what could be little bits of crud on the negatives leaving streaks as it runs off. Or, it could be micro-bubbles. I think it's micro-bubbles because the negs have turned out ok.
How do drum processors work, and how many sheets fit inside them?
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