I was already doing a fair amount of cutting down for other formats, so halving full sheets in red light is ok with me. One q I was struggling with is how fast will fix efficacy degrade with no stop or water after dev! 🤷♂️😅
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Regarding cutting down, I don’t have a good cutting board or a real dark room, so I’m hesitant to try. But it would make sense financially to buy a cutting board if it saved me from using positive paper exclusively.
aug 25, 2025, 9:46 pm • 1 0 • view
❤️ My system is NOT fancy. I have a cheap guillotine cutter from staples (which does NOT cut perfectly), and a cheap drop light with a red LED bulb (tested safe) clipped to the mirror in a bathroom! 😅😅😅 Using it to cut ortho stuff is easy! Using it to cut panchromatic stuff is trickier. 😅😅😅
aug 25, 2025, 9:59 pm • 1 0 • view
I actually asked Lukas that and he said he changes the half tray he uses every 25-30 photos. Which surprised me. I thought it would exhaust faster. I haven’t been pushing it that far.
aug 25, 2025, 9:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh wow. That is surprising. I guess my follow up then is what vol do you get in the trays in that camera? I was using already nearly exhausted fix so it wasn’t surprising that it wasn’t working well. But wondered how much worse I was making it without stop. 😅
aug 25, 2025, 10:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Ive regularly used water stop but not NO stop. I did realize, belatedly, that because of the red light peep hole I could tip off excess dev more than I thought I could because I could SEE what I was doing! 😅😅😅
aug 25, 2025, 10:05 pm • 1 0 • view
I have no peep hole, but it took about 300ml to halfway fill the tray.
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