drying 4x5 negs...

[Dean Taylor]

hello LFP pros!

please take a moment to clarify: is this the preferred method of drying 4x5 negs (using metal hangars designed for the task)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF-QsuXC7Wk

or, are there other means at one's disposal?

thank you!

Dean

[jp]

I dry them like prints, clothespin on a wire.

[Drew Wiley]

Simple line and clothespins above the sink.

[Lenny Eiger]

I use a wire stretched across the room, with stainless steel clips, small "binder clips" that one gets in a stationery store, either #0 or #1. Works for all formats, to 8x10, at least.

Lenny

[Pfiltz]

I dry them like prints, clothespin on a wire.

Yep

[RawheaD]

I make custom hanging thingies, where you take a paper clip and partially stretch it so that one end is semi-permanently hooked to a binder clip and the other end forms a hook. This I can hook onto anything from a clothes line, lamp shade (my favorite in fact), clothes hanger, etc. etc.

[Light Guru]

is this the preferred method of drying 4x5 negs (using metal hangars designed for the task)

Your question is written as if you think there is only one right way to dry negatives. There are many ways to do it.

That person drays them in metal hangers because thats what they developed them in. People that don't develop in metal hangers would not do that.

You REALLY need to search the forum before posing a question. A question about drying negatives was posted just yesterday.
http://www.largeformatphotography.in...or-drying-film

Other results from a simple search.
http://www.largeformatphotography.in...ht=drying+film
http://www.largeformatphotography.in...ht=drying+film
http://www.largeformatphotography.in...ht=drying+film
http://www.largeformatphotography.in...ht=drying+film

[Drew Wiley]

I have another system too, just in case I need to put the darkroom to another use while the film is drying and don't want the
sheets getting contaminated. I have a cabinet with a simple fan at one end (made from a cheap room air cleaner), and an
intake filter at the other, made from a fine permanent coffee filter funnel. The wire line is inside, and there are little wire
hooks attached, which fit thru the registration holes of the film (since a lot of my past film work invoved registration punches). For some odd reason, ACROS film already comes with one little hole in the corner, which will accept my hooks.

[Andrew O'Neill]

I just use cord and plastic clothes pegs.

[Dan Henderson]

A long time ago I used stainless steel hangars and tanks to develop my film. I did hang some film up in their hangars but I did not like the results: negatives sometimes stuck to the hangar when dry and at least once damaged a negative. I also did not like the uneven drying where water collected longer on the bottom of the hangars, leaving drying marks. So now, regardless of the developing method, my negatives hang from the same clothespins and lines on which my prints also dry.

Another trick I learned is to give the negatives a final rinse after washing in distilled water with one drop of Photo-Flo and one capful of isopropyl alcohol added. The negatives dry more quickly with no mineral deposits left behind.