Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It is a single roll only daylight loading developing tank. There were two versions, one, the cheaper model, was very simple and you have to agitate it continuously because there is no film reel -- you just keep cranking it back and forth to keep the film moving around in the solution, and which would leak from around the crank, so you have to stay over the sink or hold a towel under it. The more expensive one wound the film onto a plastic reel and had a cutter to cut it free from the cartridge when wound out, and also featured a built in thermometer (which I always thought was useless, because you had better have your solutions tempered before you put them in!). The fancier one was sold under Agfa and Leitz names, the cheaper one Agfa only AFAIK. If you are buying the fancier one to use, inspect the condition of the strap that clips onto the film and pulls it down into the reel. Not much to go wrong with the cheapy, except the leaky seal around the crank. I had the cheap one when I was a tike -- circa 1970 -- and my Lithuanian 7th grade photography teacher, who said he once worked in a processing lab and swore he'd never load another roll of film in the dark, had the fancier one. He was my first Leica influence, with his M3, 50mm DR Summicron, 135 Elmarit w/eyes, and 35mm w/eyes (I do not recall which version of the 35mm). When I would remark how sharp his pictures were, he would reply, "Of course -- eeeeez wit Leica!" More than you wanted to know? Maybe I am just having a Senior Moment. Tom Schofield >Anyone know what a Rondinax developing tank is? > >thanks, > >feli _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html