RE: Big B&W Film, ABS pipe

[Kerik.Kouklis@xxxxxxxxxxx (KOUKLIS, KERIK T)]

I've been processing 7"x17" and 11"x14" film (FP4 and HP5) in home-made
Schedule 40 ABS-pipe processing tubes for many years now.  I work in a
normally lighted room and the film is often in the tubes for 30 minutes
to several  hours, depending on how many I load at a time and how
quickly I process them.  Never had ANY problems with fogging.

Perhaps ABS is made differently than it was 25 years ago...

Kerik Kouklis
Platinum/Palladium Photographs and Workshops
http://www.jps.net/kerik/



> Be warned that black ABS drain pipe (even the thick kind)
> passes some "Light". 
> 
>  I bet the tube trick would work for slow B&W materials in a
> "darkened" room, but watch out for too much TIME in the
> light.
>