4×5 Sheet Film Development Set Up
Here is the develoment set up to test Delta 100 and T Max 400 in WD2D.
Water bath soak.
This is to have the negative evenly soaked in water allowing the developer to evenly go across the film when placed in the developer.
Wear gloves.
Then stop bath. Which will be my old standard regular table vineger mixed with water.
Water bath to Fixer one then fixer two.
Fixer is Forumlary Rapid Fix with out the harder and the smell. Boric Acid and Soduim bisufate. Used at 1:3.
Then water one to water two bath to full washing.
Times after the test.
The exposures were from 1/4 of a second to 3 mins. It will be interesting.
It’s been cloudy and very windy.
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Written by Jimmy MacDonald on July 11th, 2006 with
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#1. July 12th, 2006, at 11:52 AM.
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.