[Leica] someone want to sell me a developing tank & 120 reels?

[benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)]

Finding good C41 processing here has become problematic.  I have to do
everything myself, which is why all my colour has become digital.

Marty


On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:
> My black and white developer of choice is C41. As is my color. For it seems
> a decade now. The last several years I had my darkroom I didn't use it.
> The good thing about C41 is its in and out in a half an hour dry to dry and
> its real hard for those people to mess up. I'm talking about someone else
> doing it like in a mall while I read Mad magazine at the soda fountain
> drinking a cherry coke with vanilla.
> Xtol 1:3 or Rodinal at 1:75 are great developers if you've got your times
> right and you don't mess up your agitation and your themomotor is not out 
> of
> whack and your rapid fix did not die but I'll take Pro 800 any day Kodak or
> Fuji. Just like when you deal with a digital capture you have RGB to deal
> with. Not just one channel. So I can filter later not ahead of time. And
> decide later just which filter makes the pic look the best in black and
> white. Or leave it in color. Which I do more and more.
> Black and white has great gravitas but color is just too much fun.
>
> The Research and development (R&D) on color neg film in the 80's and 90's
> was 100/1 over chrome and black and white films I bet.
> The 800 films today have the grain and sharpness of the 200 films of the 
> day
> before yesterdays And color neg films have the tonal latitude of nicely
> developed black and white films. That compared to a stop in each direction
> for slide films which are many f stops slower.. No no more slides for me or
> black and white I'm a three channel color neg guy whenever I shoot film for
> now on. No more 50 cents a click for bracketed chromes.
>
> --------------------
> Mark William Rabiner
> Photography
> mark at rabinergroup.com
>
>
>> From: Kyle Cassidy <kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:57:59 -0400
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: [Leica] someone want to sell me a developing tank & 120 reels?
>>
>> I'd best post this now while the bad idea is still fresh in my head. I'd 
>> like
>> to get a Nikkor tank and two 120 reels (stainless w/ the stainless lid, 
>> cause,
>> you know, looks are more important than function). i gave all mine away 
>> when i
>> swore i'd never develop film again. but this freaking Hasselbad is 
>> STARING.
>> AT. ME.
>>
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