Embarrassed to ask...how do you hang 4x5 film to dry?

canuhead · Jul 5, 2015

I'm either drying them in the hangers or I use the Patterson clips with the pins. One very fine pinhole doesn't bother me.

Regular Rod · Jul 8, 2015

Dental X-Ray clips are perfect for the task. One tiny little mark in the corner of the edge and no damage to the image surface...

RR

pdeeh · Jul 8, 2015

^what a smart idea!
Are they up to the task of gripping a sheet of wet 10x8 too?

Bob Carnie · Jul 8, 2015

These ones are great as well.

Regular Rod said:
Dental X-Ray clips are perfect for the task. One tiny little mark in the corner of the edge and no damage to the image surface...

RR

removed account4 · Jul 8, 2015

i just use wooden clothes pins on the rebate
if it makes a little mark on the image area i don't worry about it ..
been doing it this way a long time ... aligator clips
seem like a very good idea too precise and a strong grip
just make sure cheech and chong don't find them they might
not like smokin' photoflo and im guessing reefer resin isn't good for film either.

Regular Rod · Jul 8, 2015

pdeeh said:
^what a smart idea!
Are they up to the task of gripping a sheet of wet 10x8 too?

Yes I use mine for 4x5, whole plate and 8x10 with no problems whatsoever.

RR

Sirius Glass · Jul 8, 2015

Regular Rod said:
Dental X-Ray clips are perfect for the task. One tiny little mark in the corner of the edge and no damage to the image surface...

RR

Yes it beats going to the dentist, but I use clothes pins and film hangers from FreeStyle, Samys, B&H, el al.

Rich Ullsmith · Jul 10, 2015

Whoa, you are kidding, right? Hemostats?!? Don't tell me those are ss Miltex . . .

Ronald Moravec · Jul 16, 2015

Plastic clothes hangars. Semi stiff wire through the hole and over a line

studiocarter · Jul 22, 2015

I stand them up on a folded paper towel with the top of the back against a vertical tray. The towel will need to be changed after a while.

Ai Print · Jul 22, 2015

Regular Rod said:
Dental X-Ray clips are perfect for the task. One tiny little mark in the corner of the edge and no damage to the image surface...

RR

Yep, perfect indeed, I have about 50 of them.

I put a twist in mine so the stack space between sheets on the clothesline over the tub allows me to hang at least 20 at a time.

pdeeh · Jul 26, 2015

Well, over the past three years, I've tried bulldog clips, trouser hangers, stainless film hangers of three different designs as well as clothes pegs of several different kinds, all of which have left marks of various kinds in my film and paper that I just don't want ...

So after reading RR's post I thought for the sake of a few quid, I'll try the dental-xray-hangers - a quick trip to the 'Bay and a batch of developing later it seems I've been given the perfect "solution"

Plus AiPrint's suggestion of a twist is brilliant.

Sometimes it's the little things that cheer me up ...

hoffy · Jul 26, 2015

pdeeh, how much did you pay for them (GBP or USD)

pdeeh · Jul 26, 2015

they were £0.80 each - 10 for £8.00 delivered, Hoffy.
I expect if I'd looked harder I could have found them cheaper.

tbh it's easy to make simple things look complicated (remember the thread about which scissors to use to cut film? ), and clothes pegs do work fine, except that I contact print my LF negs to include the whole rebate and the small marks in the corners always annoys me. Perhaps I'll get bored of doing it that way one day and start masking, and then it won't matter any more ...

Embarrassed to ask...how do you hang 4x5 film to dry?

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