I am now...

[Goodyear]

...off to the kitchen to soup the 4 rolls from my few days in Cambridge.

And once again I was hit by my usual problem: the first day I spent wandering around getting to know the place, not taking any pictures, was one of beautiful sunshine. The rest of the week, when I was shooting, was a uniform 18% grey.

See you all in a while...

 

[peter_n]

So they will all be perfectly exposed... 😀

 

[peterc]

The rest of the week, when I was shooting, was a uniform 18% grey.

Makes exposure easy ... 1/ISO at f/8
Sorry to hear about that weather ... Cambridge is a beautiful place (I lived there for a year back in the 70s).

Peter

 

[Goodyear]

You know, I sometimes think a film drying cabinet would be a great purchase...

 

[xcapekey]

a film drying cabinet IS a great purchase 🙂 i was lucky enough to pick one up at my LCS...i can shoot, develop and print within the span of 2 hours...

 

[Goodyear]

Yeah. With one I could have those three (forgot one was still in the Bessa to be finished) rolls scanning by now.

As it is, they're still hanging up in the shower.

 

[CleverName]

I've been using the ceiling fan in the kitchen as a film drier.
At first I just clipped the film to the blades and let it hang, then thought, what the heck, and turned it on. If you use the slowest speed the film gently sways and doesn't get tangled up, plus the air from the fan helps it dry.
I usually place two rolls on opposite fan blades. It also looks kinda cool.

 

[Doug]

Sorry, but it strikes me that using the ceiling fan is a clever way to get lots of dirt and lint onto the damp film, to cause grief later when scanning/printing. I hope it won't be so, but fear it will...

 

[bmattock]

Yeah, reminds me of the time I was hanging film up to dry in the laundry room - wife choose that moment to run the drier. Oops. Looked like my film had dandruff.

 

[CleverName]

Sorry, but it strikes me that using the ceiling fan is a clever way to get lots of dirt and lint onto the damp film, to cause grief later when scanning/printing. I hope it won't be so, but fear it will...

I hadn't thought of that, I'm still new to developing. I've only done about a dozen rolls and ceiling fanned about half of them. I haven't had a problem so far, but it is kind of risky. Drying cabinets are enclosed and usually have some kind of filter whereas my kitchen usually has dust and cat fur. Ceiling fans are notorious for collecting dust.

I guess I ruined enough film in the exposure process, it's time to move on to ruining film in the development process. :bang:

 

[Stephan]

a film drying cabinet IS a great purchase 🙂 i was lucky enough to pick one up at my LCS...i can shoot, develop and print within the span of 2 hours...

How much does one of those cost anyway ? That would be a good idea...

 

[Doug]

I have a nice big drying cabinet with a sliding door and a dust-resisting water-spray feature... It does double duty as a shower. 😀

Spray a bit of water around the inside before hanging film, and keep the door shut while drying. I have a length of wood that extends crossways from the top rail of the shower door to lean against the side wall opposite, and this wood has eye-hooks screwed into it so I can hang several rolls of film to dry at the same time. See photo below (the shower rod running down the center of the shower has no function for film drying, just for hanging clothes to dry that shouldn't go through the heated clothes-dryer!) I pictured the wooden board tipped so you can see how it's made...

 

[FrankS]

I hang my wet film to dry on strings strung 7' high across my darkroom. No fans, so no problem with dust. Drying time is about 1 hour, 2 hours in the more humid summertime.