Crazy thought - developing sheet film in the holder

The reason I don't want to use a change bag is because it's slow, it's a pain in the ass, you can't do it with dirty hands, you can get dirt on the film, I don't want to mess with pouring developers, fixers, water in and out. The crazy idea was that I keep shooting while a few sheets are developing by themselves. Hey, I did say it was a crazy thought. I'll think about it some more.

Maybe I'll design a film holder specifically made to be water proof, even though machining plastic is not very appealing The other thought I just has was to use a Grafmatic holder and just place the septums in specifically designed slots in the "developing device". Of course, now we're back to some changing bag of sorts.

Knock yourself out.

Philip Jackson said:

Fuji should seize the opportunity from the perpetual whinging here about the demise of Polaroid T-55 to devise a monobath paste for one of their films (say Acros 100) and package it in a pod within a special envelope similar to the ones they already manufacture for instant black and white or color prints . Forget trying to produce a print at the same time (this wasn't something Polaroid ever did successfully). Fuji has all the technology for instant prints, and negatives shouldn't be that different, as long as the paste is optimized for a particular sensitized material.

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Polaroid did do something like this back in the 80's in 35mm format. The kit was called an autoprocessor.

Flickr picture here

Aurum said:

Polaroid did do something like this back in the 80's in 35mm format. The kit was called an autoprocessor.

Flickr picture here

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Did I dream it or are there/were there 35mm films that we sold in a kit to develop them in the canister? I've got this vague idea I heard about such a thing (possibly sold in Japan) but I'm genuinely not sure if it's just a figment of my imagination!

Carbon Negatives

Hey, you might be onto something. I'm wondering if you might not leach some of the carbon black out of the plastic in the film holder and get a redeposition onto the film thereby obtaining something we could call a carbon negative. Something like the Pyro effect of staining. Maybe Sandy King should investigate this.

Nate Potter, Austin TX.