From: David Woods (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Mar 01 2005 - 01:55:51 PST
Pam,
Further / related to Jason's mail, I very often avoided the use of a tank,
with its rather time-consuming spiral threading.
I had access to a dark room and what still photographers called "drop
tanks". These were simply rectangular basins, some 12 or 15 inches square.
They normally held developer or fixer or whatever for 5x4 negatives to be
suspended in.
Running a hand processing class for 16mm animation linetesting students, it
was very easy for the short lengths to be gently passed through the fingers
(holding the edge rather than the emulsion surface), under the liquid
surface, using gloves, backwards and forwards from start to finish; thus
ensuring even development along the length. 30 feet or so was perhaps the
upper limit, as the snakes of film tended to scratch each other randomly as
lengths increase.
The drop tanks were:
1) Developer
2) Stop bath - just cold water
3) fix
4) Wash with Teepol (surface tension reducer)
Drying was achieved by hanging and blowing with a hair dryer..
It was fast and fun, and cheap.
The darkroom (safety) light had to be off for all panchromatic film of
course.
Good luck
David
Dr. David Woods
Holcus Ltd.
16 John Street
Kingston Square
Hull HU2 8DH
East Yorkshire
UK
tel. 44 (0)1482 323421
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Halprin" <email suppressed>
To: <email suppressed>
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 2:31 AM
Subject: Re: 16mm developing tank
> Pam,
> Always keep an eye on ebay. A quick search yielded no 10+ reel tanks,
> but there was an 8 reel tank and a Jobo spiral tank that could be used
> for your purposes (unfortunatley it's AU$100). In the event you don't
> come across a tank you can always use small trays. A friend of mine
> developed 25 ft. strips of 16mm 7240 using about 300ml of chemical in a
> shallow rectangular tupperware with a lid. He placed film in the
> container and shook it, and got pretty good results. Through testing
> and notetaking (and doing everything in the dark) he eventual got
> consistent results.
> -Jason Halprin
> --- Pam Su <email suppressed> wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I am a film student at Cornell University currently embarking on a
>> project
>> in which I intend to hand process 16mm Ektachrome and reticulate the
>> stock.
>>
>> Is anyone selling a 10+ reel developing tank, Lomo tank, or Morse G3
>> tank?
>> Or perhaps advise me on where I may locate one? I have looked very
>> determinedly and have yet to find one. Please help!
>>
>> Thank you very much and I look forward to your amiable reply.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Pam
>>
>>
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