Comments on: 4×5 Sheet Film Development Set Up http://www.jimmymacdonald.com/blog/2006/07/11/4x5-sheet-film-development-set-up/ Where you enter into black and white photographic worlds Tue, 13 May 2008 20:17:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Jimmy MacDonald http://www.jimmymacdonald.com/blog/2006/07/11/4x5-sheet-film-development-set-up/#comment-2 Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:52:32 +0000 http://www.jimmymacdonald.com/blog/2006/07/11/4x5-sheet-film-development-set-up/#comment-2 It's summer so my darkroom warms up quickly from my body heat which warms up the developers in the trays. So each tray is set in a water bath. It's a tray with water at the same temp of the water baths, developer, stop and fixers. It helps to make sure your timed development is all done at a set temperature without any increases during it. Thats why a water bath is used. It’s summer so my darkroom warms up quickly from my body heat which warms up the developers in the trays.

So each tray is set in a water bath.

It’s a tray with water at the same temp of the water baths, developer, stop and fixers.

It helps to make sure your timed development is all done at a set temperature without any increases during it.

Thats why a water bath is used.

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