Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The plastic tanks were for grade school kids. In a high school photography class they'd flunk you if they saw you with one. Decades later though for the Jobo system that was something else. Some good people used those even for sheet film. I graduated high school in 1969. -- Mark R. > From: Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 13:30:14 -0800 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] My first self-developed roll in 9 years > > Congratulations! I learned to load a stainless steel tank by feel > (Nikor, Nikkor [?] ) when I was high-school age and never retreated > to plastic ones. > > Herb > > > >> I stopped developing my own film when I moved from Switzerland to >> the Netherlands in 2003; in our Dutch house, there just was no good >> space for it, and I had a good lab in Amsterdam. Since moving to >> Spain in 2007, I have been using a lab in Barcelona by mail--they do >> good work, but it is not cheap, and there is waiting time involved. >> So, during my recent visit with Jim Shulman, he convinced me that >> doing my own development is the way to go, even for a low-volume >> person like me. I bought the chemicals and a developing tank with >> two spools from Foto Mayr in Germany, and today I had the pleasure >> of developing my first roll in 9 years--a roll of Fuji Acros 6x9 >> (Texas Leica), all 8 images appear nicely exposed and correctly >> developed. >> >> Thanks for the inspiration, Jim! >> >> Cheers, >> Nathan >> >> Nathan Wajsman >> Alicante, Spain >> http://www.frozenlight.eu >> http://www.greatpix.eu >> http://www.nathanfoto.com >> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ >> >> >> YNWA >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- > Herbert Kanner > kanner at acm.org > 650-326-8204 > > Question authority and the authorities will question you. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information