How Many Ways to Process ANY Film: List Them

[Tin Can]

I'll start, I have not done it but have read of newsmen processing 35mm inside the can without removing the film first.

Monobath...

Here is a discussion of it, https://www.photo.net/discuss/threads/developing-film-in-the-cassette.341735/

[Duolab123]

Supposed to have only worked with 20 exposure rolls.

[Tin Can]

I roll 12 exposure rolls... but only because LF has made it hard to shoot more than that

Can't wait to process...

[Tin Can]

I have processed 4X5 sheet film in one ZipLock under safe light

Put film in, add developer, agitate for a while, change to stop, then change to fix

Not my idea, I think SergieR suggested it

I was scratching X-Ray film

No scratches!

[Duolab123]

I open tanks for years for sheet film. Now I have aquired a couple Jobo machines, obvious solution for color. I use the Jobo for everything these days, however I still think tanks (daylight for roll film) with replenishment is the best overall processing method.
I have Kodak Rapid Color Processors model 11 and 16k. Built in temperature control, these were used for every color print process and large transparent print film. I've never fooled with trying it but I'm confident these could be used for any sheet film up to 16 x 20 amazing machines. Lots faster through put than a Jobo with tubes for color printing.

The gold standard for any film processing IMHO are tanks with gaseous burst agitation

[Tin Can]

BTZS Tubes

https://youtu.be/TMXQO5ATgiY

[Willie]

Send the film to the photo lab?

[Louie Powell]

for Sheets:

Open trays - shuffling sheets
Open trays - with a 'slosher' insert
Tanks
Vertical tanks with nitrogen agitation
Vertical tanks - stand processing

[Tin Can]

NIKOR 4x5 developing tank which I use for 3-1/4 X 4-1/4 as it is adjustable

https://www.photrio.com/forum/threads/nikor-4x5-development-tank.97923/

[Tin Can]

Buckets, any size, this youtube is an interesting and humorous way,

Hand-Processing Super 8 film in Caffenol Step-by-Step (Expired Kodachrome 40) (https://youtu.be/9QS4a6gMFdU)

I think Garry Winogrand (https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/garry-winogrand?all/all/all/all/0) also did this

Garry DID NOT PROCESS a lot of his film! At least 6500 rolls...

[Willie]

for Sheets:

Open trays - shuffling sheets
Open trays - with a 'slosher' insert
Tanks
Vertical tanks with nitrogen agitation
Vertical tanks - stand processing

Open tray - brush development.

[John Kasaian]

Take 'em to the drug store and wait a week. No wait they don't do that anymore:(

[Tin Can]

I fondly remember 1 hour photo drive up kiosks

Oh Snap! 15 Abandoned & Shuttered Fotomat Film Kiosks (https://weburbanist.com/2016/05/08/oh-snap-15-abandoned-shuttered-fotomat-film-kiosks/)

I always wondered how they did that.


Take 'em to the drug store and wait a week. No wait they don't do that anymore:(

[jnantz]

taking film, scrunching it into a ball and shoving it into a tank and filling the tank up with developer and shaking it like a can of paint
FR tanks and a pencil to agitate
see saw in a tray ( roll film )
( sorry i don't have the 19th century drawing )
taco method ( sheets )

[Tin Can]

I see saw 14X36" X-Ray in trays, using PQ

All done in under 10 minutes to hang for dry

Waffle method for 2-1/4 X 3-1/4 sheet film, up to 12, but I only do 6 at a time. Shaken, not stirred.

Then dry it right in the waffle.

This is my absolute favorite way to process any film....that fits!

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48280548022_94e3385b08_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2gyoqRL)1-90-2x3 sheet film waffle (https://flic.kr/p/2gyoqRL) by TIN CAN COLLEGE (https://www.flickr.com/photos/tincancollege/), on Flickr

[ic-racer]

When I was growing up I was told of a new story where someone developed film with (in) the water of our local river. The river is know for catching on fire and the film development was a new twist. I must have mis-heard the story because I imagined someone with some kind of light box wading out in the river to develop the film. Only later did I realize they must have taken the water back to the darkroom.

[esearing]

I remember reading somewhere single sheet 5x7 in a thermos - EMA tube method.

[Greg]

When I was growing up I was told of a new story where someone developed film with (in) the water of our local river. The river is know for catching on fire and the film development was a new twist. I must have mis-heard the story because I imagined someone with some kind of light box wading out in the river to develop the film. Only later did I realize they must have taken the water back to the darkroom.

When I was attending RIT in the mid 1970s, was done with water from the Genesee River. As I remember several changes of river water (in the darkroom), extended developing time, and resulting negatives were anything but dense but were printable on Agfa Brovira #6.

[Tin Can]

Had to look up EMA, I assume you mean Steve Sherman

Have You Tried Steve Sherman's EMA Process With Kodak TMAX 100 or TMAX 400 (https://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?140991-Have-You-Tried-Steve-Sherman-s-EMA-Process-With-Kodak-TMAX-100-or-TMAX-400&p=1404446&viewfull=1#post1404446)




I remember reading somewhere single sheet 5x7 in a thermos - EMA tube method.

[John Layton]

tape the ends of a roll of 120 together so that it forms a big loop, with the base side out. Then, put the loop into a long, skinny tray of developer - and turn the loop over, and over and over and over - until the step is done...then move to next long, skinny tray and repeat... I actually have the specific trays that were made for this but have never actually tried it. First read about this procedure as written up by William Clift - as his method for getting perfectly even skies. Must try this sometime!

Myself? The usual stainless tanks for roll film. But for LF...I now put multiple small trays inside one huge tray - so that I can either flop the large tray around to agitate the entire group of individual films...and/or agitate specific trays based on individual films' needs - pretty nifty if you think about it...but a bit of a logistical pain. Keep in mind that this arrangement is only for the developer step - with preceding water bath and remaining (stop and fixer) steps accomplished by doing the usual group shuffle. All in all a great regimen for getting in touch with ones "spacial sensibilities" in the dark!

[Tin Can]

Very young, I forget my age then, I processed Minox film in some forgotten way, without adult supervision

Here is a way to do it now

A Cheap, Easy DIY Minox Developing Reel (http://alandove.com/static/2011/05/a-cheap-easy-diy-minox-developing-reel/)

[Tin Can]

A second video by Steve Sherman, shows a few tips

https://youtu.be/NUHDPhvSn5M

[Jim Andrada]

I have the Minox daylight loading developing tank - the whole process is done in regular light including loading the film from the Minox cartridge.

[ericantonio]

John Malcovich processing film in the bathroom in the movie "Killing Fields"

[ericantonio]

Professionally I've done thousands and thousands of 35mm/120/220 in stainless steel tanks and basket. With "inspection". You are too young if you don't know what B&W processing with Inspection is :)

At home these days, I love my Stearman Press 4x5 tank. I do old fashioned trays for my 8x10.