Re: 70MM Development

[Steve Shapiro <sgshiya@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anybody have experience converting 8 35mm reels to one 8" reel?

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From: Curt Miller,EMW <cmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: panorama-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <panorama-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, January 07, 1999 3:47 PM
Subject: Re: 70MM Development


Hi Group -

I had this problem, too, when I switched to inversion agitation from rotary
a couple of years ago.  I did a lot of testing until I found the very simple
culprit: pistoning of the reel inside the tank.  I now have a variety of
plastic jar lids that I place inside the tank to take up the slop.  Since I
have  5 or 6 tanks of varying capacity from 2 reel to 12 reel and I use a
variety of combinations of film size, I have a variety of sizes of lids.

Curt

>
>>I have started shooting 70mm Tri-X in 5 meter rolls. I have a Nikkor
>>tank and reel. Using the same agitation as with 120 in normal tanks
>>which works fine (3 inversions every 30 seconds), I get uneven edge
>>development, i.e. denser and contrastier edges. If I cut back to 2
>>inversions, that problem almost completely disappears, but I'm now
>>getting uneven development in open areas, i.e. blotchy skies. Other
>>than A.not using 70mm and B. not shooting skies, does anybody have any
>>suggestions?

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