HC-110 Developer Measurement Techniques
Introduction This first section is meant as background to justify why I chose to do things the way I do. You can skip ahead to the developer mixing section to get to the gist of the article. In an earlier post I describe the re-purposing of Cibachrome drum s for 4x5 and 8x10 sheet film development. One-Shot Developer Part of that was my determination to use HC-110 developer as one-shot. I have come to understand that I am not a consistent enough user of film developer to keep bottles of it lying around. The result is that I worry about whether the developer is fresh. I do not want to risk my images on possibly expired/old developer. You then get into the problem of tracking of how much film has been through the developer and possibly extending developing times depending on how much film has been through the developer. Eventually I realized there is a certain amount of developer that is used each time and so there isn’t really an idea of ‘saving developer’. This all lead m...