Moment of Zen or Moment of Despair

[seezee]

Ditto. Single use developer in a mixing jug, and the fixer stays in the bottle until the developer is in the sink. I've done it once that I can recall, with film, but I have been known to run prints the wrong way through the fix/wash/dev trays in the past. That's not so disastrous though.

Neil

+1 on this. I mix (liquid) developer in the kitchen & pour it in the tray before carrying it to the bathroom, where the other 4 trays are already set up. The bottle of fix sits in tray no. 4 until the negative is ready to come out of the plain water stop bath, & only then do I pour it into the appropriate tray.

[BetterSense]

I use clear bottles for fixer, and developer is either mixed up from concentrate or comes out of a wine bladder. When I did use replenished developer, it was in a big glass jug.

I get nervous at the thought of developing more than 2 rolls at once. After big trips I may do as many as 4. What kind of tank even allows doing 6 at once?

[Sirius Glass]

Here is a wild idea. Actually label the bottles correctly and change labels when the chemicals change. Ever think of that??

[richardman]

This is now on the wall on top of the Jobo developing machine. Ha ha. Yes, I wrote the bottle positions on the cleared film T_T.



I did 200+ sheets of 4x5 for my 2 portrait projects last year. This does not count all the "personal" stuff that I do. If I develop one or two rolls at a time, I will be in the room all days and nights :-)

[richardman]

Ha ha, thankfully, I am only doing C41 and B&W using 2-bath Pyro right now. I also used to use Harvey 777 and E-6. Talk about confusion.

The 3010 Jobo tank holds 10 sheet. I just had 9 (C-41) done, and another 4 in the 2552 right now. Then I have 3 rolls of 120 to do.

Yes all of these were done in a 5 day long weekend.

[LabRat]

Now just use the stuff in right bottle/at the right time, and you are fine... And don't just stare at it like a 70's day-glo poster, do it!!!! :-)

Steve K

[richardman]

The color rolls came out great! Emotional roller-coaster, LoL. Here's a sample image:

http://www.largeformatphotography.in...=1#post1307240

[plaubel]

I get nervous at the thought of developing more than 2 rolls at once. What kind of tank even allows doing 6 at once?

I am such a nervous man, too, but with my old Photounion Unitub I am able to process two small drums at the same time, which would keep 7 rolls of film, each.

But fearing the richardmantechnic, I only develop two rolls at max.

In remembering lot of cases, where I worked hard without any picture in hand after all - yes, I believe this must be a form of Zen-training, richardman.

Ritchie

[seezee]

This is now on the wall on top of the Jobo developing machine. Ha ha. Yes, I wrote the bottle positions on the cleared film T_T.

I did 200+ sheets of 4x5 for my 2 portrait projects last year. This does not count all the "personal" stuff that I do. If I develop one or two rolls at a time, I will be in the room all days and nights :-)

Excellent system. The inventiveness on display by the forum members never ceases to amaze.