pf slosh trays and pmk pyro

[mitch brown]

hi
does any one use a slosh tray for developing 4 x 5 negs in pmk pyro. i could use some ideas as to development times w hp5+ and delta 100 also do you presoak , how long in a plain water stop bath and any thing else i might have missed.
thanks
mitch

 

[Photographica]

Gordon Hutchings introduced me to the slosh tray. He taught me how to develop using the shuffle method then brought out the sloshers. I liked the tray but I had already become fairly comfortable with the shuffle method so I never bought one. With the tray I pretty much started out using the standard times and methods from his book and it got me in the ball park. From there you will want to fine tune your times. Do a little searching on this forum and you'll find a lot more information specific to your film and PMK.....

Bill Riley

 

[noseoil]

I'm using PMK and development tubes now. Since PMK is so inexpensive to use, a full tube is cheap and development is very even. Nice to work with the lights on as well. tim