Jim suggests two approaches. 8x10 stainless steel tank/hanger method or single image in a flat bottomed tray. I don't have a flat tray. Cesco makes them. But the remaining photo supply stores in South Korea only seem to offer trays with bumps in the bottom. I'm looking into alternatives, but most plastic tupperwares have a single 1 cm round bump in the middle. A TA recommended stainless steel cooking trays, but they're about $17-20 for an 8x10ish tray. I might just pay the shipping and order a few trays from freestyle photo with some other goods. In the meantime, I'm using 8x10 contact glass in the bottom if the trays. I'm waisting chemistry though. For one sheet, I have to use 1500 ml. So I cheated and processed two negatives (one at a time) in the chemistry before remixing.
The agitation method: not sure where I got it from perhaps a mix of sources. I wanted to make sure it was even development. Perhaps doing all four corners at the 1 min mark would be sufficient. I may have taken the PMK pyro advice and done one corner per 15 seconds. I've seen to have heard it say that it's not so much the process or agitation but the consistency that matters. It's the nature of the film, but the negatives are a bit contrasty for my tastes. I might try a test with shorter times and let the 7min developing time be my N+ development.
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