What is your typical B&W sheet development method?
Note: "Rack (Manual Dip and Dunk with a 1-up or 4-up Rack)" is the same as "Hangers" - I couldn't come up with the word "hangers" when I made the poll, thanks.
Jobo Expert Drum (Motorized)
Jobo 2500 Series Tank/Reel (Motorized)
Hand Inversion (Tank or Drum)
BTZS type tube
Tray - standard
Tray - slosher type
Tray - with brush
Rack (Manual Dip and Dunk with a 1-up or 4-up Rack)
Polaroid Instant
Professional Lab Services
Other (please specify below)
What is your typical B&W sheet development method?
Note: "Rack (Manual Dip and Dunk with a 1-up or 4-up Rack)" is the same as "Hangers" - I couldn't come up with the word "hangers" when I made the poll, thanks.
hangers in a tank, semi-stand, pyrocat-hd
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Eric Rose
www.ericrose.com
I don't play the piano, I don't have a beard and I listen to AC/DC in the darkroom. I have no hope as a photographer.
Most of the time, Jobo CPA2, Expert drums, Pyrocat HD. If I want semi-stand effects, and/or I have a large volume of 8x10 work to do, it's tanks and hangers. I'll have to tray process my 5x12 and 11x14 stuff until I can find a Jobo 3004 drum.
What format?
4x5 Jobo 2509N reels.
Bigger print drums.
Unicolor Processor.
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority"---EB White
Re: Poll: Development Method
hangers, i.e. rack
trays, as described in an artice on the Free Articles section of the View Camera web site. I was taught this metod by Jim Glavin and Morley Baer. In 28+ years of using it I have scartched maybe two negs. This process allows me to develop 6-8 negs simultaneously for 6-8 different development times.
If it ain't broke don't fix it.
Oh yes, music in the darkroom is a key ingredient.
steve simmons
If nothing else, this demonstrates that there is no one absolutely right way to do it.
BTZS tubes for 4x5.
Brian Ellis
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you do criticize them you'll be
a mile away and you'll have their shoes.
Beseler paper drum and roller (Unicolor or Beseler), tray on occasion.
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