Re: B+W reversal bleach

From: Jason Halprin (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Mar 27 2006 - 20:27:00 PST


Something I've used lately to make my bathroom cleaner and cut down on
fumes, as well as the amount of chemistry I'm using, is to hand-process
in a 5 reel 35mm still tank. The results are uneven (a plus in my
mind), but I can mix about 2L of chemistry and stuff 100ft of 16mm in
there. I'm guessing the cross contamination of chemistry is a major
issues, I don't keep chemistry around very long and I extensively clean
the processing tank in between batches.

-Jason Halprin

--- Steven Budden <email suppressed> wrote:

>
> Awesome. Thanks for the information. I'll add your paper to my ever
> thickening wad of film processing literature. It certainly looks like
> it will be the
> one of the more condensed and useful chapters.
>
> Since I already have a T Max kit (permanganate), I'll try it on my
> less
> critical rolls (since it was $44, it can't escape being used
> somehow).
>
> I was using a Lomo tank previously for black and white negative, but
> the
> results were actually more uniform that what I was looking for. Going
> through
> the tedium of hand processing, I'd like to at least get the hand
> processed look.
>
> I do like the look of the 'primordial soup' bucket method but doesn't
> it
> take a at least a gallon of chemicals to even do 50 feet of 16mm?
> Plus it sounds
> like most of the bleach fumes would be rising out of the buckets into
> the air
> of my bathroom.
>
> By double strength bleach you mean twice the Dichromate and Sulfuric
> acid as
> the regular R-9?
>
> Also, anyone have any advice for the Fomapan with the G3? I know it
> generally takes longer.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Steven
>
> In a message dated 3/25/2006 12:40:21 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> email suppressed writes:
>
> Hi Stephen,
>
> First, let me say I'm not a fan of the G-3 rewind tank--it is tedious
> as
> heck to use and results tend to be very unpredictable. I would
> personally just
> as soon wad the film up and swish it around in a bucket as use a G-3.
> However,
> if you really want to use this tank I suggest using fresh chemistry
> for
> every batch, or at least every few films. I have also heard that it
> helps to mix
> your dichromate bleach at double strength. Do not use permanganate
> based
> bleach in this tank at all--it will not work.
>
> Below is a processing paper I wrote a while back which includes a
> special
> section with instructions if using a rewind tank. Please note that I
> am just
> an amateur and offer no guarantees regarding any of these processes
> whatsoever, but I hope it can be of some help:
>
>
>
>
>
>
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