[LargeFormat] Panatomic-X still around sort of...

[Les Newcomer]

rich,

I just came back from a 2 week trip out west shooting a 5x7 Kodak 2D, 
shot close to 100 sheets, but I went conventional and used Tmax. I"m 
processing them in a sink line with SS hangers.

Since I like to do things the old way, I'd probably search out an old 
"Pack film"  dev tank.  Pack film was a roll film base cut to large 
format sizes. They used a couple of different methods, the early version 
was an oversized roll film tank with the insert or basket having radial 
dividers, the film was bent imulsion in and placed in each of these 
sections, then processed as normal. Early Yankee agitanks used long pins 
to pierce the film at the corners to keep the film in the slots while 
sloshing around. Never saw a 5x7 Agitank before though.

Les


On Monday, August 12, 2002, at 07:18 PM, Rich Lahrson wrote:

> Hi Les!
>
>      Of the large roll of Panatomic-X I've got, I've only developed 
> some that
> was cut
> to 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 that I shot in a Graflex SLR.  But it was a PITA to 
> cut to
> that size.
> I'm getting the 5x7 soon and cutting the film will be easier.  Also, I
> developeed in a tank.
> But for the 5x7 I'll use the trays.  That's why I wrote to Kodak.  I was
> hoping that
> the film would be available on a thicker base to make life easier.
>
>      It's interesting to hear that the Polaroid P/N may be Panatomic-X  
> But
> it's only 4x5.
> My decision to move to 5x7 will allow me to try some new materials.  
> Like
> developing
> in pyro and contact printing onto Azo.  Plus I've got an old Elwood 5x7 
> fitted
> with
> a Componon 180mm for larger.  The Polaroid P/N is a very fine grained 
> film
> I've used,
> but not recently.
>
> Rich Lahrson
> Berkeley, California
> tripspud@transbay.net
>
> Les Newcomer wrote:
>
>> What kind of time/temp and process?  jobo? tray?  With that thin of a
>> base I suspect nitro burst in hangers is out of the question ;-)
>>
>> Les
>> On Monday, August 12, 2002, at 04:29 PM, Mike Kirwan wrote:
>>
>>> Have you tried Polaroid Type 55 PN film? I think this a similar or if
>>> not
>>> the same emulsion as Panatomic-X. I have removed the film from the
>>> envelope
>>> and developed in D-76 with really good results.
>
>
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