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Rocking print trays?
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That's a new one on me,
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when I am in my darkroom I put a bit of status quo on the record player and all my trays ROCK
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Rocker dishes
A good idea BUT! How will you manage to get the chemicals up to temp with only a small surface in contact with a heater?
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I wonder if, given the name "Color Canoe", they are intended to float on a water bath? But I don't know - it's the first time I have seen them too.
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A bit off the subject.
When I started darkroom work I was given a couple of old china developing dishes. They had a pair of notches cut out of the base lip. At the time I thought it was part of the clay moulding process. Later when I got my first plastic set the same notch was moulded into them as well. It turned out to be notched so that a pencil or dowel would rest across the notches. That way the dishes could be gently rocked to and fro with the pencil as the fulcrum. I have never seen it mentioned anywhere except in an old photography book from the 1930s. As Michael Cain might say "not a lot of people know that." Cheers.
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Floating dishes
Floating them empty on water would probably be OK. but put enough developer in them to work properly, I would say you would need to call out the lifeboat. A weird contraption no mistake.
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I haven't see these before either but the first thing that struck me was that they might be designed to use less chemistry i.e. the developer, stop and fix does not cover all of the print but by continuous rocking you can replicate the effect of total coverage as the chemical washes over the print so frequently that in effect it is the equivalent of continuous coverage. A bit like the Jobo rotation tanks that use half the chemistry of inversion
All speculation on my part but constant rocking across the print might be the equivalent of more gentle flat tray rocking and save on chemistry? Mike |
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