What kind of timing device you are using for developing films?

[eggen]

RH designs processmaster II with termometer probe

 

[Saganich]

I have a RH designs process master that I use for total time (because of my ever-fluctuating temperature situation) and a smiths mechanical timer for agitation intervals. Fake time and real-time together.

 

[choiliefan]

Unicolor Jingle Bell programmable timer is simple, accurate and reliable.
Same as this: https://www.photrio.com/forum/threa...am-timer-1972-made-in-western-germany.129472/

 

[Nodda Duma]

The timer on my microwave in the kitchen. Or Lab Timer app on iphone which can serve as timer for any process you can think of (I use the app for E-6, C-41..tells me when to agitate and everything)

 

[pwitkop]

The Massive Dev Chart Timer app on my iPhone. https://www.digitaltruth.com/apps/mdc/ Times development, stop, fix, hypo wash, wash & Photoflo (like you really need that one!). Includes the Massive Development database. Love it: you can adjust it for temperature, custom development time, A&B times. Can't add a new film, but you can modify any existing film/developer time.

I'll second this one. I grabbed an old andriod tablet at goodwill for almost nothing so I can destroy it with wet hands and not worry.

 

[winger]

I have used a succession of LCD kitchen timers. I think I'm on the third one in about 18 years. Each cost under $10 US. They can apparently handle a little bit of water, but my two that died got a little more wet than just what was on my hand. And FWIW, I use it to time film as well as paper, so each got a decent amount of use before dying, too.

 

[Sirius Glass]

For film development a Gralab 300 [using the buzzer or watching the dial] and a Jobo processor. For enlarging Chromega Dichroic II 5D-XL with its timer.

I use a digital timer for paper development.

 

[Kilgallb]

One of those RED Kodak mechanical timers for development. A Graylab 540 electronic for the Enlarger.

 

[Charles Thomas]

I use the Lab Timer app or Massive Dev App, although sometimes I just watch the wall clock if I'm being lazy.

 

[mpirie]

RH Designs Processmaster II for me too.

It holds 8 different timing schemas for expansion/contraction/different devs/dilutions etc.

Mike

 

[kobaltus]

For printing. Once the print is in the developer, I have a regular old clock with a second hand.

For developing film I just set an old watch ( w/o a wrist strap ) on the counter and keep an eye on the seconds.

Seems like I'm the only one here who just uses a plain old clock or watch for timing development / stop / fix.

Me too. Old clock. Never failed.

 

[Stephen Prunier]

For film and paper, I use an old mechanical stopwatch. It's the size of an old pocket watch. It has a large secondhand dial and a smaller one to keep track of the minutes. It's accurate and simple to use.

 

[grahamp]

I'm still using a English Clock Systems clockwork Stop Clock. The old cream model, which is more ergonomic than the later push-button set clockwork one from Time Controls. I do do a sanity check on my timers every so often in case they drift. The nice thing about them is that they can be used with wet hands if necessary.

There's a Gralab and a general wall clock on hand if I need them, and there is always the phone.

 

[Bill Burk]

One of those RED Kodak mechanical timers for development. A Graylab 540 electronic for the Enlarger.

I just cleaned my red Kodak timer. It had been barely clicking. Took a while to clean each pin gimbal in the chain of gears. The secret is to remove the escapement and then clean until the minute hand spins a full revolution in about nine seconds.

 

[Bill Burk]

I’m surprised nobody here uses the CompNTemp software equivalent to the Zone VI compensating development timer. I’ve been really happy with it, just takes some old laptop and a USB thermometer probe.

 

[faberryman]

A stopwatch on my iPhone.

 

[foc]

A digital kitchen cooking timer.

 

[ozphoto]

I was given an English Clock Systems Interval Timer in the 80s, and it's awesome.

It's currently in for repairs - probably going to cost more than it's worth, but it has proved itself since I started darkroom work and I don't want to be forking out for another; the clock repairer believes it'll last well past my expiry date.

 

[Wallendo]

The Massive Dev Chart Timer app on my iPhone. https://www.digitaltruth.com/apps/mdc/ Times development, stop, fix, hypo wash, wash & Photoflo (like you really need that one!). Includes the Massive Development database. Love it: you can adjust it for temperature, custom development time, A&B times. Can't add a new film, but you can modify any existing film/developer time.

I use this also.

I add new films by semi randomly picking a similar film/developer combo and then editing it, changing all the parameters and names as needed.

 

[pmargolis]

For film processing, I use an ancient red Kodak wind-up timer that makes a comforting clicking sound as the seconds advance. The enlarger that I use in a rented darkroom has a relatively "modern" Time-O-Lite electrical/mechanical timer.

 

[Pentode]

I use the Develop! app on my iPhone. I like it a lot.
I keep a paper towel nearby so wet hands haven't been much of an issue. I keep the phone off to the side so I don't drip on it (too much).

 

[gordrob]

I use a pair of Gralab 300 timers for doing black and white film. If I am processing E6 I use an old Vivitar Time Commander that allows me to link the the timing of 6 steps of the process together.

 

[David Lingham]

I use this pair of old Smith timers.

 

[Mal Paso]

GraLab 300, but since I use a hanger system with open tanks in the dark there is an opaque "flag" under the timer so the glow doesn't fog the film. Just realized I've been developing this way for 50 years. LOL Had to replace the first GraLab. They aren't fireproof or I'd likely still be using the first one.
I have a Philips System 2000 timer with probe on the enlarger. Someone made me a very good deal and the Heathkit I was using was hard to read under the safelights.
Good Thread!

 

[John51]

Nowadays I use a simple kitchen timer. In the 70s I'd be arriving home after midnight and tired from an evenings work. To minimise mistakes, I recorded my voice onto a cassette tape and played it to act as a process timer.

Pour in developer in 3...2...1...NOW etc.

Can be done on a phone now. No need to look at it and it can be placed well away from any liquids.