How do you dry your film?

[Denverdad]

With this:

A Senrac roll film dryer - quick, effective, and virtually dust free. It only took me a couple times using the old hang-them-in-the-shower method to realize that there had to be a better way! Now I can't imagine developing film without it! 😀

 

[will-i_am]

i have a wire coat hanger with pegs on it that i hang in my shower and hang the film off the pegs with pegs at the bottom for a bit of weight. i live in a super dusty house and amazingly have not had only minimal if any dust issues drying via this method.

 

[will-i_am]

I ordered a kite last week and it came in the other day. The box is huge, almost as tall as me. It'll work perfectly like that! And just in time. I've been having some terrible trouble with dust on the last couple rolls of 120 and 220 film. I need something to help and this should work great.

i though you were going to say you fly the kite with the films hanging off the string to dry them in the wind 🙄

 

[Haigh]

I have attached an extendable telescopic arm to my large tripod and hang it from that and let the film drip into a darkroom tray. I do not go in and out of the room much and slowly if I do to avoid stirring up dust.

 

[tbeaman]

Like this!

 

[al1966]

I use a built in wardrobe with a thin rail, no heat or vents all seems to work as clean negs so far.

 

[Mablo]

I have a shoe box size Kindermann dryer. It's really handy. You just drop your Hewes reels into the dryer and come back after an hour or so.

 

[Roger Hicks]

From http://www.rogerandfrances.com/subscription/ps how process 35-120.html, where you'll find a picture of the technique as well (near the bottom of the module, logically enough).

Before we had a drying cabinet, we used to hang films diagonally to dry them. They dry MUCH faster (and therefore cleaner) this way, even in unpromising locations. In our house in Bristol, which we left in 1987, we used to pin them diagonally across the kitchen door, which opened onto the back yard, and they were still remarkably clean. You want them at least 10-15 degrees from the vertical, and 30 degrees is probably best. The water runs down to the edge of the film, where even if you do get drying marks, it won't matter.

A useful trick with 35mm film dried diagonally is as follows. Pin the top, but at the bottom, bend a paper-clip into an S-shape. Hook one end into one of the perforations of the film, and hook a short elastic band over the other. Loop the elastic band over the lower pin. The film is then kept straight during drying, but the inevitable slight shrinkage of the film does not rip the lower pin through into the next perforation.

Cheers,

R.

 

[sazerac]

I found a collapsible garment storage at Container Store. It is clear plastic, about 24" square and 4' tall. I let the film slow dry overnight to reduce curling.