Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/02/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]When I came on the LUG a dozen years ago and talked about loading my metal reels back to back two rolls on one reel boy did I get a sarcastic treatment! Despite the fact that I've done with with thousands of rolls of film over several decades. And was before anyone saw anything I'd done. I read about in a POP PHOTOG article in the mid 70's I think by Bill Pierce. Then a week later I had three rolls to develop in two roll tank. I figured out how to do it. As one hour developing film I liked better than two. Putting only one roll on a reel for the most part I got to feel it was more difficult; too flimsy! And by the way I did the Xtol 1:3 thing in tanks filled with reels each reel had two rolls on it. So much for exhaustion paranoia. Mark William Rabiner > From: "H. Ball Arche" <h_arche@yahoo.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:06:55 -0800 (PST) > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] AP or Jobo or Paterson or... > > > Yee-haw Alan! > > Now if someone would only reiterate that fact that plastic tanks and reels > require half as much again in volume of chemistry. If you're using a > one-shot, > as in D-76 1:1 or Xtol 1:3, plastic can run up your bill and mix rate > considerably. > > > --- On Fri, 2/13/09, Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3@uwm.edu> wrote: > >> From: Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3@uwm.edu> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] AP or Jobo or Paterson or... >> To: "lug" <lug@leica-users.org> >> Date: Friday, February 13, 2009, 9:02 PM >> On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 Mark Pope >> <mark@whitedogs.co.uk>replied to Nuno Miguel dos >> Santos Baeta: >> >>> I'm sure the Hewes spirals are very good, but >> I've never used them, as I >>> haven't felt the need to change from Paterson. >> >>> I think whatever you choose, be it Paterson, Jobo or >> Hewes, once you get >>> the hang of loading them you'll be fine. >> =============================================================================>> = >> I learned to use stainless steel reels early on, and >> it's good thing I did. In the age of film at work I >> used to >> have to develop direct positive B&W reversal film. I >> would load two rolls of film on each reel, back to back, >> and process ten reels (20 rolls) at a time in one gallon >> clear glass tanks, for 40 minutes in the dark. >> Don't miss doing that bulk processing, but I still like >> metal reels. >> >> >> Alan >> >> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer >> UPAA POY 1978 >> University Information Technology Services >> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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