My Plans for Combiplan Developing Tanks

[Daniel Unkefer]

My plans for Combiplan Dev Tanks 1 by Nokton48, on Flickr

Went to World of Used Photography yesterday, bought these two matching Combiplan Developing Tanks. Up to now I have been developing rotary using JOBO 2500 series, working good for me for really big runs. Wanted something smaller, more like dipn'dunk, daylight lid is a plus. My thought is to load my European size films (six at a time), then drop into dev tanks, cover on. I checked in the store, ran water and the dev tank dosen't leak when inverted. The tank labeled stop bath DOES leak when inverted, so would be good as a small deep tank. On the left front is a rack of 6.5cmx9cm XRAY film, on the right is six sheets of 9x12cm B&W (this rack has all the pieces and is complete). I just won one more Combiplan, complete unbroken, with all the original parts, from Germany. That gives me three tanks and racks to configure in different ways for different processing runs. Any thoughts on Complan use from out there?

My plans for Combiplan Dev Tanks 2 by Nokton48, on Flickr

This is what is also coming my way soon.

[Merg Ross]

My plans for Combiplan Dev Tanks 1 by Nokton48, on Flickr

Went to World of Used Photography yesterday, bought these two matching Combiplan Developing Tanks. Up to now I have been developing rotary using JOBO 2500 series, working good for me for really big runs. Wanted something smaller, more like dipn'dunk, daylight lid is a plus. My thought is to load my European size films (six at a time), then drop into dev tanks, cover on. I checked in the store, ran water and the dev tank dosen't leak when inverted. The tank labeled stop bath DOES leak when inverted, so would be good as a small deep tank. On the left front is a rack of 6.5cmx9cm XRAY film, on the right is six sheets of 9x12cm B&W (this rack has all the pieces and is complete). I just won one more Combiplan, complete unbroken, with all the original parts, from Germany. That gives me three tanks and racks to configure in different ways for different processing runs. Any thoughts on Complan use from out there? Wish mine so far would takes glass plates!

My plans for Combiplan Dev Tanks 2 by Nokton48, on Flickr

This is what is also coming my way soon.

Daniel,

You may enjoy this old post from Eugene Singer who posted here for many years. I followed his method with Combiplan and it worked well.


https://www.largeformatphotography.i...ve-developing/

[Daniel Unkefer]

Wow. That's exactly what I want to do. Just printed out the article. Like his washing setup!

Thank You Merg!

Happy Holidays

[Torquemada]

this may be helpful or not but....

have you considered ammo cans? heavy duty rubber seal, completely light proof... resist dropping from moving air craft... just need a darkroom to use them in.. unless you got some heavy duty hose fittings and a good drill and modified them.

ive thought about it, just heavy.

[Daniel Unkefer]

Those would also be good for storing film in a light tight environment. Good for organizing things in the darkroom too. I'll see what's around.

[Jon Shiu]

Wondering why you are not able to use to develop glass plates?

Jon

[Daniel Unkefer]

Wondering why you are not able to use to develop glass plates?

Jon

The film guides are -curved- not flat, J Lane glass plates won't fit. Maybe earlier film holders are flat, I seem to remember somewhere that glass plates were ok at some point. I'll keep a look out.

[Jon Shiu]

If you look at the sides they are reversible and there is a curved and a straight side to them. It took me about 10 years to figure that out.

Jon

[Daniel Unkefer]

Aha! Thank You Sir for that! Now I can burn up my quantity of J Lane Plates. So these tanks will do my 6.5x9cm glass, 9x12cm glass, and one box of 4x5 Lane plates. Even some EI 25 Speed Plates. Good Times Ahead

[Daniel Unkefer]

Well, Drat. Both of my Combitube units have curved sides, on both sides, so there it is. Perhaps the one coming my way will be more like the ones you folks are describing.

My plans for Combiplan Dev Tanks 3 by Nokton48, on Flickr

Here's the box for what's coming to me next. It says it develops plates, so we will see.