Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/16

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: film development, was various
From: John Brownlow <john@pinkheadedbug.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 16:14:54 -0400

on 16/8/00 3:48 pm, Tim Spragens at t.spragens@cityweb.de wrote:

>> From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com>
>> 
>> ... I'm doing metal tanks and reels
> 
> Who makes these anymore? I used to use Nikor and Olympus
> cans, but all I see these days are plastic. I think B&H had some
> generic cans, but are they any good?


Kaiser still make metal tanks. As for reels, the BEST IN THE WORLD are
Hewes. They're just fantastic, really heavy guage and almost impossible to
misload due to a brilliant centre clip design.

They are sold in the US under some stupid name like 'Golden Wonder' that
sounds like a Chinese restaurant but the importer is Jobo Fototechnic. There
was also a posting about a year ago on the darkroom NG about a new
customised version of the reel which would work with Jobo cans. The product
number was 1565 and the guy who posted the info was 'ken' of Jobo
(www.jobo-usa.com).
- -- 
Johnny Deadman

http://www.pinkheadedbug.com

Replies: Reply from chucko@siteconnect.com (Chuck Albertson) (Re: [Leica] Re: film development, was various)
Reply from Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com> (Re: [Leica] Re: film development, was various)