Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Good for you Nathan! Acros is a great film, what developer did you use? I've never stopped shooting/developing film and am using more of it than ever before. I processed 11 rolls of 120 yesterday. Richard www.richardwasserman.net On Jan 8, 2012, at 1:02 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > 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