 Sherri McGee |
dip and dunk Can someone please explain dip and dunk to me. also, if I wanted to process my own negatives, scan and print myself. how do I get the negatives ready? is it a simple matter or opening the cartridge and cutting the negatives or is it a lot of work?
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Dip and dunk is just what people call developing film in developing tanks. It has to go in and out of different chemicals. If you want to process you own black and white, you need the stainless steel spiral and tank, the developer and fixer. Somepeople go the whole nine yards and use a stop solution, but you can use water to rinse in between steps. If you want to do your own color negatives, just take them to a regular photo place and just get processing, no pictures.
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Sherri McGee |
Gregory, Thank you for answering so quickly. I have been researching new photo labs. My current lab is scratching my photos and leaving fingerprints on them. The better labs advertise dip and dunk. thanks for explaining it to me.
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Vince Broesch |
Where you are talking about lab advetising, by dip-n-dunk they mean a machine on which the film is hung from racks and the racks are lowered/raised from the machine tanks automatically, as opposed to cine or roller transport machines, in which rollers come in contact with the film. Roller transports can damage film because of the contact. Cine is better because of no contact with emulsion side of film except for buffers, so dip-n-dunk or Cine is best. But most important is if the people operating and maintaining the equipment. Vince
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Sherri McGee |
Thank you Vince. I've never heard of Cine so I will look into that also. Which is better dip-n-dunk or Cine?
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Vince Broesch |
When the film comes out of a dip-n-dunk wet section, it has stablizer on it and you can get drying inperfections. Of course when the film comes out of a cine it has stablizer on it too, but it goes through a set of buffers that remove the excess. That makes cine film dry great without the drying imperfections of a dip-n-dunk. There are a million other considerations... If a lab only processes a few hundred rolls each day, they wont want to deal with a cine, they require higher skill to operate and maintain. Anyone processing 10,000+ rolls per day will use a cine. Hope this helps, but the real issue for you is just the quality of the people operating and maintaining whatever equipment they have. Vince
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Sherri McGee |
Thank you Vince. You have been very helpful.
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