Hi Matt. Yes, that’s what they say... but that’s not my experience. I’ll bet that if one exceeds “gentle” then bad things like surge marks could occur but I’ve never experienced them, or uneven results if one continuously agitated. I still wouldn’t invert (it just seems so extreme and unnecessary to me) and would opt for the figure-8 style swirl discussed earlier.Paterson's instructions say to use the swizzle stick only for the first short portion of the development, because if you use it for the entire time you may end up with uneven development.
I don't have an answer. I haven't used the stick for a long time. I've seen it more with other people's film. It may also be inexperience related, in that I've seen it more with beginners' films (who may have been twirling to fast and hard).You may be correct @MattKing, it may be "film and devloper dependent"; I'm interested to know if was it more apparant on some combinations than others?
I don't have an answer. I haven't used the stick for a long time. I've seen it more with other people's film. It may also be inexperience related, in that I've seen it more with beginners' films (who may have been twirling to fast and hard).
It is one of those lessons that I learned a long while ago and was confirmed by the manufacturer's instructions, so I considered the issue as being determined.
Oh, my word... not another rabbit hole for us to go down. Ha ha ha.shaking martinis
I do it all the time - works great. I love Paterson products!I opened up my new Paterson plastic reels to the 120 size a few times, and It made me very nervous.
Any history of breakage?
I was contemplating getting another set of reels and dedicate these to 120.
I was gifted a Kindermann vintage steel reel, but my dry-run practice was not very pleasant...
I agree completely. My 40+ year old and badly colour-stained reels are still in use I have no worries about splitting them apart but the opaque white plastic modern ones I was gifted give me the twitches when I split them apart wherein they squeal like fingernails on a blackboard and feel so fragile so I try not to use them. I'm guessing the original reels were made with a nylon based material which seems to have a self lubricating property whereas the modern ones feel like a poly-carbo-whats'it type stuff that goes brittle after a few years. Just guessing though ...I have compared reels made in last 5 years to ones from about 30 back. New are made of different material, flex substantially more, and are more difficult to clip together and unclip. Not sure which ones OP has in use, but if newer ones, then I can see the worries as taking them apart is not as smooth as with the older.
Me too...everytime...for over thirty years on this set of reels.
I found the trick to leaking is to "burp" the lids like you do with tupperware. Pushing in on the top while lifting an edge before sealing creates a slight vacuum than keeps the lid from leaking.
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