Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'll echo Marc's endorsement of "name" stainless reels. One badly botched loading job of an important roll with a Far Eastern import convinced me to bite the fiscal bullet with Kindermans all the way round. Kinderman does offer a nifty little guide device for its 35 mm reels which I found indispensible for easy loading. That said, I'll admit to using a Jobo for all my processing now (except Minox). If temperature control for slides becomes a consideration, an uncontrolled tempering bath for the stainless tank might not be suitable. The Jobo plastic reels do have their temperamental moments as I found when loading film at a time of high humdity. The perfs along one edge of the film ended up torn when they got hung up on one of the guiding "teeth" on the reel. Roy On 5 Sep 98 at 13:17, Stephen Kobrin wrote: > Digital processing of my B&W negatives has made me realize that I > need control of the entire process and I want to get back to > developing my own film (Its been 25 yrs). A very basic question: I > am getting conflicting advice on metal vs. plastic tanks and reels. > Any preferences on the LUG? I will start with a one roll tank. > > As I use TMAX and the Ilford counterparts, I have pretty much > settled on Xtol -- seems like a good way to start. Now the only > problem left is how to do a digital contact without 36 separate > scans:) > > Steve > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > DO YOU YAHOO!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > >