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Equipments for film development.

 

Tools

  • Roll film tank and reel.
    I recommend the Nicole type tank and reel, for example, LPL Stainless Tank. a few measure cup.
  • Few cups
    For developer, Stop bath solution, fixer, or hypo clearing solution.
  • Thermometer
  • Darkroom Timer or Clock
  • Film picker (film retriever)
    It is to pull a tip of the film which I has contained in a Patrone.
  • Darkroom or dark bag
  • Sponge
    A smooth sponge for a photograph.

Chemicals

  • Developer
    D-76,T-max,and others.
  • Stop bath solution
    water, 1.5% acetic acid solution, or Indicator Stop Bath.
  • Fixer
    I recommend it used ammonium thiosulfate, Kodak Rapid Fixer and similar.
  • Hypo-clearing solution
    2% sodium sulfite (Anhydrrous) solution, Kodak Hypo Clearing Agent,...

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How To Develop

1. Make chemicals and control solution temperature, generally 20 degrees C (68 degs. F).

  • Following each packages of films or chemicals
  • Please do not make developer after stopbath and fixer when I use the same scalpel cups for a preparation of a medicine. Because acid has mixed in developing solution, and there isn't developing ability.

 

2. Roll the reel with film in DARKROOM OR DARKBAG.

  • Picking from a magazine use with Film Picker (film retriever), then start rolling.

 

Development start.(under room lamps)

˜a(3K) 3. Pours developer from pouring gate of tank, start timer, knocks at bottom of tank on for example a desk*, stirs continuously from 30 seconds to a minute.

  • *Because it is removed bubbles on surface of film.
  • Stirring:  Examples of LPL tank, headstand tank, and stop a moment, and return (refer to the right fig.).

 

4. Passes from 30 seconds to a minute, after that stirs two times in 5 seconds every 30 seconds.

5. Passes development time, discharges developer from pouring gate of tank, next pours the stop bath solution.

  • Knocks at bottom of tank for a desk, stir continuously during 30 seconds.

 

6. Discharges the stop bath and pours fixer.

  • Stirring method is same of case of developer.

 

7. Passes fixing time, about from 3 to 5 minutes, discharges solution, and wash films from 30 seconds to a minute to use running water.

8. Soaks a film to hypo-clearing solution during a few minutes, then washes above 5 minutes to use running water.

 

Drying

9. Soaks a film, wash finished, to drops removing solution during 30 seconds, hang film after that pick up it from reel, wait until drying film.

10. To finish drying, cut a film, and files it.

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