How do you dry your 4x5 films?

[Pirate]

For those who develop their own 4x5, how do you dry it?

I have a home-made drying cabinet for small and medium format that works great. I will be developing my own 4x5 pretty soon and have no way to dry it yet, so I'm looking for suggestions and ideas. Might make another special cabinet just for that, or modify my existing cabinet. I'd like to hear how you guys dry your 4x5 so I can start thinking of how I want to dry mine.

Thanks

 

[jmcd]

I hang mine up from one corner with clothes pins, plastic or wood, strung from a wire.

 

[MikeL]

I hang two on a pants hanger.

 

[drewbarb]

I hang them from a corner/edge with a small metal clip strung on cord.

I started using these clips when shooting and washing a lot of Polaroid P/N. I think I paid something like 15 bucks for a bag of a hundred- I can't remember, exactly. They were much cheaper than this. Anyway, I have a lot of them. Binder clips work fine, too.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/123163-REG/Delta_58050_Stainless_Steel_Film_Clips.html

 

[loquax ludens]

I hang one 4x5 film by the corner from each of the two clips on my old Eastman Kodak 8x10 Cutfilm Developing Hangers.

Any kind of small clip will do. I also have a bunch of tiny metal clips I found at an office supply store that I use on a clothesline stretched above my darkroom sink from one end to the other.

I've also used a tiny hole punch to punch a hole in one corner of the sheet, then used bent paper clips to hang the film on my drying line. You can find an assortment of hole punchers at an office supply store.

 

[Shac]

I hang mine up from one corner with clothes pins, plastic or wood, strung from a wire.

Same for me

 

[gliderbee]

I just leave them on the reel (Jobo 25xx, if developed in that way) and hang them either in my dryer (Jobo Mistral 2), or when the dryer is "full", just on the reel.

Stefan.

 

[degruyl]

I hang mine up from one corner with clothes pins, plastic or wood, strung from a wire.

Same, except I hang them from a wire shirt hanger. Not that that is the important part. The single corner is the important part, since it allows water to sluice off the film and drip off the low point, instead of collecting on the lower edge.

For 8x10 (in case that comes up in your future) you have to worry about the weight of the film being too much for a single clothespin. I bend the wire hanger so that the slope is created towards the center, and use two pins along the top.

 

[Rayt]

Same for me

Yup me too.

 

[maddoc]

Hanging them with a clip attached to one corner. Since the film base is thick there is no problem with curling.