4x5 Developing Tank

[SoulfulRecover]

I'd like to start developing 4x5 film myself but I wasn't sure which tank I should be looking at. Any suggestions?

 

[480sparky]

I use a standard 3-reel Patterson tank with a Mod54.

 

[Light Guru]

I use a standard 3-reel Patterson tank with a Mod54.

Just be aware that the film can easily falls out of place in the Mod54. Thinner films especially have this issue with the Mod54. =Sven small amounts of agitation have caused film to become dislodged for me. When the film becomes dislodged it ends up touching another piece of film and thus ruining two sheets of film. I now just use my two mod54'(one old style one new style) only for stand development, witch is fine with me because i actually prefer stand development anyway.

 

[webestang64]

I'm old school, Kodak 4x5 hard rubber tank and metal hangers.

 

[compur]

Jobo

 

[480sparky]

I use a standard 3-reel Patterson tank with a Mod54.

Just be aware that the film can easily falls out of place in the Mod54. Thinner films especially have this issue with the Mod54. =Sven small amounts of agitation have caused film to become dislodged for me. When the film becomes dislodged it ends up touching another piece of film and thus ruining two sheets of film. I now just use my two mod54'(one old style one new style) only for stand development, witch is fine with me because i actually prefer stand development anyway.

I've never had any issues.

 

[limr]

I haven't used it yet so I can't speak to how good or bad it is, but I got one like this so I could develop my 2.25 x 3.25 from the Baby Graphic (which I also haven't used yet ) and also 4x5 (eventually.)

Yankee Cut Film Daylight Developing Tank CF-45 B&H Photo Video

 

[Derrel]

I haven't used it yet so I can't speak to how good or bad it is, but I got one like this so I could develop my 2.25 x 3.25 from the Baby Graphic (which I also haven't used yet ) and also 4x5 (eventually.)

Yankee Cut Film Daylight Developing Tank CF-45 B&H Photo Video

OMG! I have a Baby Graphic...and I bought a new old-stock Yankee tank a couple of years ago! What a small world! I bought my tank from Oregon's oldest, continuously-operated photo store...opened in 1953, still run by the SAME dude! Hollywood Camera Store!

The place has TONS of vintage (New Old Stock, and Used) stuff for darkroom,cameras,etc..

Hollywood Camera Store - Hollywood - Portland, OR

 

[OldManJim]

I use a Jobo.

 

[jcdeboever]

Go to the grocery store and buy a couple containers of the large rectangular containers of Nestle quick mix. They are the perfect size for 4 x 5 hangers. At your agitation time just pick them up a little and jiggle them back and forth.

 

[480sparky]

Go to the grocery store and buy a couple containers of the large rectangular containers of Nestle quick mix. ................

Do you mix it 1:4, 1:5, 1:7 or 1:9?

 

[webestang64]

I have a Jobo ATL 1000 I'm going to sell........

 

[compur]

OMG! I have a Baby Graphic...and I bought a new old-stock Yankee tank a couple of years ago! What a small world! I bought my tank from Oregon's oldest, continuously-operated photo store...opened in 1953, still run by the SAME dude! Hollywood Camera Store!

Coincidentally there was a long-lived camera store here in Hollywood (in Los Angeles) called Lloyd's Camera that also started in the 1950s and finally closed in 2001. It looked just like the pictures of your Hollywood Camera store with shelves full of old cameras behind the counter. In the front window there were some famous movie prop cameras including the Exakta with long lens that Jimmy Stewart used in the Hitchcock film "Rear Window" and others. Inside on a shelf there was a Graflex Norita 66 that I had my eye on for years until I finally got myself a Pentax 67 instead, a much more practical choice.

There were other small "mom & pop" camera stores in the area but they're all gone now. Lloyds was the last one to go.

 

[Dave Colangelo]

If you have one of the stainless 35mm tanks the top is the right diameter to fit on a standard shaker cup. You can get a plastic one at target for ~$1.29 and go for the taco method with some light rubber bands

The plastic is not light tight so you will need some opaque duct tape to solve that problem

 

[SoulfulRecover]

If you have one of the stainless 35mm tanks the top is the right diameter to fit on a standard shaker cup. You can get a plastic one at target for ~$1.29 and go for the taco method with some light rubber bands


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The plastic is not light tight so you will need some opaque duct tape to solve that problem

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Interesting idea but no I don't have any tank currently. Havent developed in ~13 years