Alan9940
29-May-2019, 11:35
Based on an article by Bob Herbst, I've decided to try TMax 400 developed in WD2D to craft in-camera negatives for pt/pd printing. Per Bob's article, he recommends 16 mins @ 68F for tray development. Since I live in the desert southwest and my darkroom temp most of the year doesn't lend itself to open tray processing, I plan to develop 4x5 film in a manual inversion style tank. Per the instructions for WD2D for roll film processing, the agitation technique is continuous for the first minute, followed by 15 secs out of every 30 secs thereafter. With this amount of agitation, I would guess that my development time would be less than 16 minutes given the fact that each sheet of film in a tray will only see fresh developer every 30 secs.
Anybody out there use this particular combination of film/developer with tank development for pt/pd printing? I'd much appreciate getting your development time as a starting point.
Thank you.
Anybody out there use this particular combination of film/developer with tank development for pt/pd printing? I'd much appreciate getting your development time as a starting point.
Thank you.