Gee, be teck-nickel, why don't you. Where did you write that in your book?
Should have typed 'Or some such device to keep unexposed paper unexposed.'
Here's another one. I haven't tried it yet, probably won't until if and when, sometime in the future, I get a permanent DR going. I read where a famous photographer would nuke his working and test prints to judge drydown more quickly. Just a little microwave.
Just thought I, the eccentric one, would throw that one out there.
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Ansel Adams proposed a microwave to dry FB test strips quickly. I have done it and it works well. At 600W a 5x7 piece of photographic paper is bone-dry within 60s. If you do it with RC or for more than a minute, you risk a fire. The resulting test strip is not fully representative of the final print. Print color and surface gloss will be different from an air-dried print. Consequently, the technique has technical limits and one should use the same equipment that is used to prepare food.
By the way, I have also used a microwave to speed dry film. Again, 60s are sufficient to dry a 120 roll of film on a plastic spool. Afterwards, the film is immediately usable to make prints. I did it to win a silly bet, but I would not do it or even propose it as a reasonable alternative to a regular film drier.
