Re: [Leica] Re: OT: Developing reels: a Saga

["Don" <don.ro@verizon.net>]

Why not use the old Buetler formula rather than the Rodinal grain
grower?
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Brick" <jim@brick.org>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>; "leica"
<leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 7:29 PM
Subject: [Leica] Re: OT: Developing reels: a Saga


> At 04:31 PM 2/24/2002 -0800, Pete Su wrote:
>
> >Some background: I'm not the most dextrous person on the planet. I
just can't
> >abide any scheme for loading that involves trimming the negatives
with high
> >precision. Plastic reels *can* work well with 120 film *if* you can
trim them
> >so the corners don't get caught on the reel and jam things. But I
just
> >can't do
> >this.
>
>
> Pete,
>
> I use my JOBO system for all sizes of film. I do not cut the corners
of my
> 120 & 220 film. I do cut off the glue on 220 but on 120 I just load it
from
> the non glue end.
>
> On 220, in the dark, it is impossible to cut the glue/tape off at a
right
> angle cut. Mine always go in one odd direction or the other. But that
makes
> no difference either. Once the film is in the reel a few inches,
rotating
> the reel sides while helping the film with your thumbs, the film goes
right
> in. I load two 120 films or one 220 roll on one reel. I don't do
anything
> special. Use a film end that has no glue/tape residue and it goes
right in.
>
> I've done this for many many hundreds, perhaps thousands of rolls with
only
> the occasional hiccup. But for sheer ease, stainless steel reels are
the
> best. Which is what I use for slow film in Rodinal. 35mm or 120.
>
> Maybe it just takes lots of practice. But if I can do it, anybody can
do it...
>
> :)
>
> Jim
>
> --
> 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