First of all .. it doesn't leak. I expected it to by all the reports I had read but it doesn't leak a drop. I also discovered that by fitting a much larger funnel to the inlet it gives the developer a little head pressure and it fills faster ... under fifteen seconds in fact. You can also get it to dump much more quickly by having a piece of tube a foot or so long at the ready to slip over the inlet nozzle when you pull the bottom bung off ... blow in the tube to pressurise the tank slightly and it empties a lot faster.
However I am very new to this 4x5 developing thing and I seem to be getting slightly patchy developing of my negs. Particularly noticable when there is a large expanse of clear blue sky ... it seems to be rather uneven! This was when using TRI-X developed in Rodinal at 50+1 for 14 minutes.
Any suggestions ... am I agitating incorrectly or do you think there may be some other reason? I agitate initially for one minute then a couple of inversions each minute from there on!
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