While you may have gone ahead in another direction, I will just say that it is easy enough to black out a bathroom at night, and sit on the floor and load holders. For the price of a tent, you can buy more holders, and a couple of trays to put on the floor of the tub or shower stall to hold the film box in one tray, and the holders in the other.
... and if you opt for a changing bag, buy the biggest you can get. I’ve only once loaded Film holders in anyplace other a changing bag... since 1982. Never found it an inconvenience or difficult or dust-prone. It takes some shuffling, though. I also load Patterson and Stearman tanks in changing bag. THOSE were a problem due to shear bulk but a bigger bag got that issue under control. My favorite changing bag is now the large Paterson. Enough room but rather tight arm holes. To ensure that dust is not much of a problem I only load and unload at home and never in the field. I’d rather load a bunch of holders in a clean environment than limit to a few and risk dust.
Thanks fot the idea. I combined it with the following: in Holland it is very hard to find nice coffee tables, so my wife and I already thought it would be better to make one ourselves. The other day I made one with a piece of ceder wood from the barn. It’s about 40x30cm with legs of 12,5cm high. It fits perfectly in my changing bag and I have more ease now with changing films. I hardly ever change at location, but blinding my darkroom costs me more time than using this bag. I can watch a netflix episode with my wife in the meantime
As a user of both, I do prefer the tent, especially for 5x7 & 8x10.
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