how do YOU process your film ??

Stainless steel tanks with Hewes reels until now. Now I use a Jobo CPP 2 for 35mm, 120, 4"x5", black & white and color.

Steve

Sheet film in Pyrocat-PC using hangers and tanks. Times determined by BTZS depending on destination - silver prints or albumen. Roll film in divided D-23..
juan

120 and 35mm - Pre-soak film with a little wetting agent; normally it's FP4+ in Ilford ID-11 at for 20 mins at 1:3 dilution, 20 degrees C., Paterson old-stylee System 4 tank. Random agitation, water rinse, fix, wash, wetting agent rinse and dry.

This would need a flow- (ha!) chart to be clear. But here goes: Minox: special spiral in a 250 ml Jobo drum. 35 mm single roll in a 250 ml Jobo drum. Two of them, 500 ml Jobo drum. 120 (never less than two of them) in a 500 ml Jobo drum. If it's a C41 process, the former Jobo Drums go into a Jobo TBE2 heated water bath in between agitations. As for times, agitation rhythms and dilutions, I just stick to what the Massive Dev Chart App on the iPhone tells me to do. Works fine.
But we're not done. 4x5s go into a Jobo 2500 tank with the appropriate holders / spirals. I fill it with 1,5 liters and roll manually. B&w 8x10s in trays, C41 8x10s in an old Durst Codrum originally meant for the Cibachrome process. Just 200 ml of chemistry, continuous rolling in an improvised water bath in a tray. Bit of a mess.

I guess I'm glad I'm not the only one doing tray developement.

35/120 in small tank with plastic spirals. I suck at loading SS spirals. (I'm too young to be old school). 4x5 in the same small tank using taco method. Had a Yankee tank but its penchant for super-uneven dev earned it a new job as a flower pot.

XTOL 1+1 (formerly Microdol-X 1+3) brought to temp during dilution with combo of tap water and brita water from the fridge. Tap water pushes past 80F during the summer here in Florida. 5 inversions every 60 sec. 30 sec Indicator stop. 5 min Ilford Rapid Fix. 1 min rinse. 2min Edwal 4in1 or Kodak hypo clear. Rinse for however long it takes me to smoke a cigarette. 30 sec photo-flo. Hang to dry.

Very cool robot, by the way.

Now this one was a cool thing! Love the little fan thingy. And the suitably industrial noises in the video.

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You are an evil genius!!

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Very cool robot, by the way.

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Thanks everyone! The little fan thing is completely without function - but it was in the original uniroller base I dismembered after the motor burnt out, and I hadn't the heart not to use it...

Marc!

35mm and 120 roll film on Paterson reels stacked on a long core, in a series of open Paterson tanks in the dark. A separate tank is set up for each chemical step. At the end of each step, the core with the reels is lifted out of the tank, drained for a few seconds, and plunged into the next tank.

Agitation is via a combination up-and-down and twisting motion, finishing by rapping the core on the bottom of the tank to dislodge any bubbles. Agitation timing is 15 seconds initially and then 10 seconds per minute in the developer, continuously in the stop bath, and continuously for the first minute then 30 seconds each minute after that in the fixer.

Sheet film in Jobo Expert drums on a CPA-2.

After experimenting with many developers over the years, for a good while now I've been back to using just D-76: 1+1 for roll film and either 1+1 or straight for sheet film, depending on the size of the sheets and the capacity of the drum I'm using.

For roll films I went to a plastic store and got 5 5inch cylinders 2 feet long and 5 8x8 inch plastic squares for bases. Then I went to a metal shop and got 8th inch stainless steel rods to bend a handle on one end and a spiral on the bottom for the base. I can process 8 120/220 reels at a time or 14 35mm reels. I agitate by lifting the stack of reels all the way out of the tank and then putting it back in. I get beautiful negs no streaks and no mottling.
Sheets are done in trays but this thread has given an old dog a new idea.
Dennis

I use either stainless steel reels or Paterson (type) reels. I can do up to two 120 rolls or four 35mm rolls in the stainless steel tanks I use.

After loading the reels into the tanks, and putting the light-tight lids and caps on them, I put the tanks into a fairly large clear plastic tank with a seal-able lid.

The entire contraption then goes horizontally onto a Beseler roller motor - one of the auto reverse ones. I

I work on a counter, beside a double sink.

The motor spins the outer container, and the tank rolls inside it. The clear plastic tank keeps the work area pretty well clean and dry.

The hardest part of putting together this was to find fairly large, straight sided containers. A Dollar Store came through - $4.00.

And now - pictures!: