Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm glad those wire hangers were returned to the condition from whence they came! -- Mark R. > From: Christopher Saganich <csaganich at gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:08:18 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] My first self-developed roll in 9 years > > I'll strongly endorse the Hews reels. Metal reels were a disaster for me > until I bought a Hews reel. It was so easy compared to the junk I was > using I shed a man tear there in the dark. I pulled all the cheap reels > apart and made hangers out of them. > > Chris > > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at > rabinergroup.com>wrote: > >> They get sold under the name "Jobo" really! >> That's what it said on the red cardboard boxes I got mine at Pro Photo >> Portland Oregon. >> You can drop them off the top of the empire state building and will not >> dent. >> Ok maybe the Chrysler building. If it hits the lawn. >> >> -- >> Mark R. >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/ >> >> >>> From: Mike Durling <durling at cox.net> >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:11:22 -0500 >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] My first self-developed roll in 9 years >>> >>> I found it helps a lot to replace the stock Nikor reels with the good >>> Hewes reels. They are sold under a variety of names but all say made in >>> England. They are much easier to load. Unfortunately they are a little >>> taller so the lid on my 2-reel tank doesn't seal very well. Still light >>> tight, but leaks chemicals sometimes. >>> >>> Mike D >>> >>> On 1/10/12 12:01 AM, Marty Deveney wrote: >>>> Yes, the metal lids are great and last forever. Some later metal >>>> tanks had rubberised plastic lids that eventually fail. If you have >>>> some of the tall metal lids that seal properly you have something that >>>> will last forever, unless you run it over with a truck. The reels you >>>> still need to be careful with. >>>> >>>> Marty >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Alan Magayne-Roshak<amr3 at uwm.edu> >> wrote: >>>>> On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 Marty Deveney<benedenia at gmail.com>wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Indeed. When I worked briefly in a darkroom in Prague, there were >>>>>> pre-World War 2 tanks still in use. But the lids had been replaced, >>>>>> probably several times. Do your Nikors have new lids? >>>>>> Marty >>>>> >> ============================================================================ >>>>> ================= >>>>> All our tanks have the original metal lids, and these old tanks have >>>>> tapered, taller ones that I prefer to the later ones, since they don't >> get >>>>> jammed and hard to remove. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Alan >>>>> >>>>> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer >>>>> UPAA POY 1978 >>>>> University Information Technology Services >>>>> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee >>>>> amr3 at uwm.edu >>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ >>>>> >>>>> "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate >>>>> for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > Chris Saganich > www.imagebrooklyn.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information