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Dog Day Development

How do you develop film during hot summer days?

  • Change development time according to a chart

    Votes: 19 39.6%
  • Water cooling or chemistry and tanks in fridge

    Votes: 27 56.3%
  • Darkroom has A/C

    Votes: 1 2.1%
  • Doesn't matter with Diafine

    Votes: 1 2.1%
  • Leaving films undeveloped until autumn

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    48
I adjust the time according to the temperature.
Tap water here is 25-26C, even in winter it is 22C or more.

I have AC so I just let my jug of water site for a while until it reaches room temp which is about 24C and go from there.
 
When living in Tucson, Arizona, where tap water can be 80F, I would take small plastic bottles and put them in the freezer. Then I can use these dropped straight into a bucket of developer, etc., and cool it off without any dilution. Ice without the melting problem. That was the main method to fine-tune temps. Fridge and time of day would do the preliminary work, getting things close. Washing was done in baths, not running water.