[Leica] My first self-developed roll in 9 years

[images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)]

I still have my Jobo and could not have processed all of my film without
it.  I did start with the steel reels, though, and still have those, too.
 I graduated from high school in 1963 ;-)

Tina

On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:

> The plastic tanks were for grade school kids. In a high school photography
> class they'd flunk you if they saw you with one.
> Decades later though for the Jobo system that was something else.
> Some good people used those even for sheet film.
> I graduated high school in 1969.
>
> --
> Mark R.
>
>
> > From: Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org>
> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 13:30:14 -0800
> > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] My first self-developed roll in 9 years
> >
> > Congratulations! I learned to load a stainless steel tank by feel
> > (Nikor, Nikkor  [?] ) when I was high-school age and never retreated
> > to plastic ones.
> >
> > Herb
> >
> >
> >
> >> 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >
> > --
> > Herbert Kanner
> > kanner at acm.org
> > 650-326-8204
> >
> > Question authority and the authorities will question you.
> >
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Tina Manley, ASMP
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