Guest NEIL-D-WILLIAMS Posted November 18, 2017 Share #1 Posted November 18, 2017 Advertisement (gone after registration) So I went out and shot 8 sheets of 4x5 today. I had already loaded 4 sheets yesterday and added two today and developed my very first color film. I hen went and loaded the next 6 sheets and you just can’t write this. After meracusly devoloping them at 39 degrees I finished the last step. Opened the can and to my bloody horror I had managed to load all six sheets of film on one side of the MOD54 holder........ SH!T. So out of that 6 sheets 4 were trashed............ you know what I really am pissed off but in the same breath I really don’t give a $&@& as it will be just something else that I have learnt and will never do again. Can’t wait to go out and shoot 6 more to prove a point Neil Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Doug A Posted November 18, 2017 Share #2 Posted November 18, 2017 Sorry to hear about your mishap. I suspect we've all done something like that. My most recent screwup was finishing the development time and then instead of removing the cap from the Kindermann tank to pour out the developer and add the stop bath I removed the whole top of the tank. I put the top back on and completed the process but none of the images were salvageable. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NEIL-D-WILLIAMS Posted November 18, 2017 Share #3 Posted November 18, 2017 Sorry to hear about your mishap. I suspect we've all done something like that. My most recent screwup was finishing the development time and then instead of removing the cap from the Kindermann tank to pour out the developer and add the stop bath I removed the whole top of the tank. I put the top back on and completed the process but none of the images were salvageable. Morning Doug Things like that really happen don't they, our minds are strange things. This whole film processing business has become a obsession rather than a hobby and in a strange way i juts can't wait to run another sheet of film in a stop bath or load film into a holder......even when I know at the end of the whole process I could easily start with fixer first or like I did yesterday screw up putting the film in the holder........... Later Neil Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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250swb Posted November 19, 2017 Share #5 Posted November 19, 2017 Sorry to hear about your mishap. I suspect we've all done something like that. My most recent screwup was finishing the development time and then instead of removing the cap from the Kindermann tank to pour out the developer and add the stop bath I removed the whole top of the tank. I put the top back on and completed the process but none of the images were salvageable. Yes we have all done something like that, the only problem with the MOD54 is that it is perfectly designed to do it all again, and again. In principle it's a great and simple idea, it should work, but in practice film can migrate to other slots and double up with another sheet just by the gentlest agitation. This problem isn't helped by the film base being more flexible in some films that others, so some film flexes more during development and pops out of position. After many ruined sheets of film I put it back in its packaging and junked this hit and miss method for processing colour and B&W in a modified Paterson daylight colour print processing tray. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug A Posted November 19, 2017 Share #6 Posted November 19, 2017 I've had good luck with the SP-445 tank. (If only I could say as much for the pinhole photographs.) Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NEIL-D-WILLIAMS Posted November 19, 2017 Share #7 Posted November 19, 2017 Advertisement (gone after registration) I've had good luck with the SP-445 tank. (If only I could say as much for the pinhole photographs.) I have that tank but up and until yesterday I found the MOD54 tank easier to load............I will give it one more go just to make sure that I have learnt a lesson Neil Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug A Posted November 19, 2017 Share #8 Posted November 19, 2017 I have a MOD54 tank too. I used it a couple of times without incident, following the advice from somewhere on the internet to agitate very gently. I switched to the SP-445 because my whole processing setup is based on 600ML graduates and I had to improvise for the 1000ML MOD54. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrism Posted November 19, 2017 Share #9 Posted November 19, 2017 The MOD54 has spoiled too many sheets of film for me, and I use the SP-445 every time now. Chris Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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