Time adjustment for tray development of roll films

[greenkrapp]

Does anyone use the see-saw method of developing roll film in a tray? If you do, how much do you adjust the development time? I would think the time should be shortened because of the constant agitation

Comments

[amirko]

I do not use stainless steel tank for the old films. Plastic Paterson tank is great for this. The only real problem I had was with some nitrate-based rolls, they were not just curly but also extremely brittle and there was no way for me to keep it from breaking in the developer. The image was there, but all in pieces! So, the bottom line is: use modern universal plastic spiral. See-saw will not work well if the film is curly. It is not fun to run extremely curly film in the tray.

Unavailable reels

[greenkrapp]

I was thinking the plastic reels would be the way to go on these. How do you handle odd size film like 122 & 116 where they don't make plastic reels?

Re: Unavailable reels

[amirko]

very simple: just use duct tape :) Disassemble the spiral into upper and lower, set both on the central column, make sure the distance is right and tape them together and to the column. Works like a charm. 116, 122, old 110, 101 -- you name it. All developed like this.