Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/19

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Friday for sale -- Rondinax tanks
From: ternahan <ternahan@sonic.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 12:23:48 -0700

So, this may be an option for fingers that don't bend so well anymore?

t?

> From: "thomas schofield" <tdschofield@msn.com>
> Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:59:45 -0700
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Friday for sale -- Rondinax tanks
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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