Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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 > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html