I think you'll find processing one sheet at a time can be a bit slow.
I think you'll find processing one sheet at a time can be a bit slow.
It won't take long before you are doing a search for "3006."
Maybe, but I am not generally in a hurry. And I like the facility of being able to process just one negative whenever I want without any great fuss.Originally Posted by sully75
But if I also get the chance to pick up a tube which will take multiple sheets then I probably will.
Regarding film washing in drums: Fill the drum with water and leave it for a minute or two, then dump. Now Put in a bit more water than you would use for chemicals, runi it for 2 minutes, repeat this for a total of 6 drum washes, this is archival.
If you are using drum processing of fiber based papers, use 13 changes of water.
The above are archival and use surprisingly little water. If yo just ran water continuously into a drum or tank, the efficiency would suck, it would not be archival.
Lynn
Hi Lynn,
I wondered about washing in the drum. It seemed to me like the film doesn't get a lot of chemical on the back side of the film because it's touching the drum. I guess you are not finding that to be true? Most of my schmutz is on the back of the film.
How good do you think that running water continuously into the drum for about 20 minutes or so, with a tip out and start from scratch every 2 or 3 minutes would be?
My easy method while I am tidying up in the kitchen afterwards!
I'm not exactly sure how well the unicolor drum holds the film in comparison to my jobo drum & 6-sheet reel that I use to process 4x5 film. When I wash the film I use the same lazy "ilford" method I use when processing roll film. I fill the tank up completely, invert 5 times. Dump, fill again. Invert 10 times. Dump, fill again. Invert 20 times, dump. It's heavy to do with the 2 reel drum but I find it works well.
How good do you think that running water continuously into the drum for about 20 minutes or so, with a tip out and start from scratch every 2 or 3 minutes would be?
My easy method while I am tidying up in the kitchen afterwards!
Re: Unicolor print drum processing of film
After getting frusterated with the idea of using a soft ply rubber eraser as the unicolor sheet film spacer and find after a process run, destroyed film due to it splitting from its softness. I contacted this company out if Illinois gace them a blue print of what I needed being this spacer since they are no longer obtainable, or so I have found. This is all the information given on a quote if anyone else is interested in obtaining what I tried to make as close a replica of the original using an engineering program. Here is the reply with all info of quote.
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