Re: [Leica] HP-5 Plus

["Mike Durling" <durling@widomaker.com>]

When my negatives are curled on dry winter days.  I find that after sleeving
the negatives in polyethelene pages if I leave them in an unheated garage
(darkroom) for a few days they flatten nicely.  (The darkroom does get
heated on demand for printing sessions.)

Mike D

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Arnold" <osprey@bmt.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] HP-5 Plus


> Dan wrote:
>
> I use both
> > of those films [Tri-X and HP 5 Plus], and if I put a clothespin on the
> bottom of the strips when I
> > hang them, both dry straight and flat!> >
>
> This is a matter of great interest. I've always had trouble, in this very
> dry climate, with 135 film drying curled -- trying to make a long tube of
> itself. I've tried weighting the bottom of the strip (much heavier that a
> closthespin), I've tried drying in a pre-heated bathroom, and the get the
> same result. Not a difference, and semi-tubed.
>
> It is SOP with me the flatten my vinyl negative sleeves under weights, for
> weeks. I know of no alternative.
>
> Suggestions welcomed.
>
> I have no trouble with 120 film, only 135. I've never shot HP5Plus, but as
a
> coincidence I just bought some (read that it pushes well, and want to
> compare with TMZ at 1600). If, indeed, it dries flatter than Tri-X, I
shall
> go public with that news.
>
> I suspect that you, Dan, live in a more moist part of the world than I do,
> the Northern Rockies.
>
> -- Paul Arnold
>
>