Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/06

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]

Subject: [Leica] Darkroom (Nova "trays")
From: heninger at adobe.com (Wade Heninger)
Date: Wed Jun 6 07:55:27 2007

I have the nova slot processor and *love* it.

They are very cool, take up little room and make clean up/prep much easier.


On 6/6/07 4:59 AM, "Daniel Ridings" <dlr@dlridings.se> wrote:

> Believe it or not, but it is becoming more difficult, not easier, to do
> digital prints. Companies like Epson are changing their printers so that
> you can't use 3rd party (piezo-, and carbon) inks.
> 
> Just like cameras, printers have become a moving target and it is
> difficult to keep abreast with what is happening (unless you can afford
> one of the really good ones, the big ones ... they seem to be more stable).
> 
> I am only interested in black and white, not color. Printing color
> digitally is less of a problem, actually, hardly one at all.
> 
> So I am thinking about keeping my darkroom set up after all. I have a
> dedicated room for it (even though the boys have booked it for their
> week-end poker nights now and then).
> 
> One of the things I don't like is washing up all the trays when I am
> finished and have been thinking about the Nova system with a box and
> vertical slots with very little contact between the liquids and air. You
> are supposed to be able to just put the cover on and the chemicals will
> last longer without you having to pour them over to bottles after each
> run (if you don't just throw them out).
> 
> Is this a reasonable way of working for someone who would only go into
> the darkroom once a week (possibly twice).
> 
> Daniel
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Leica Users Group.
> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
w a d e  h e n i n g e r
u s e r  e x p e r i e n c e
a d o b e  s y s t e m s ,  i n c



Replies: Reply from 54moggie at embarqmail.com (Robert Lilley) ([Leica] Darkroom (Nova "trays"))
In reply to: Message from dlr at dlridings.se (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] Darkroom (Nova "trays"))