i went over to a retired photographer's house to buy some more 4x5 holders, and ended up coming home with a bunch of hangers and two 4x5 tanks. i also got a large 8x10 tank. now what do i do??
i quickly figured out that three or four tanks would have been better than two plus the large one. however i figure i could use the little ones for developer and fixer, and use the big one for a big water stop bath in between (my preferred stop bath anyway). after the fix, on go the lights, wash a tank and do the rinse there (or use another method).
i also have nowhere to hang the hangers while loading them, but i could, in a pinch, hang them between the outer edges of the dev and fix tanks. probably prone to disaster at some point, but this is just a test to see if i like the hanger method or not.
any problems besides that pesky need for total darkness anyone can see so far?
i'm a little hung up on developer choices though. currently i've got HC-110, D-76 and a Anchell/Troop TD-200 two-bath developer that i mix myself. i don't want to burn through developer and these tanks are huge. the two-bath is reusable so that'd be ideal...except then i'd definitely need another tank. i don't want to be washing and pouring back into bottles in the dark. but using HC-110 or D76 is going to burn through a lot of developer, as i don't always do large batches of film processing.
currently i use the 'taco' method, if that gives you some idea of my level of sophistication.
any suggestions, or even links, would be helpful. thanks.
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