[Leica] someone want to sell me a developing tank & 120 reels?

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

My black and white developer of choice is C41. As is my color. For it seems
a decade now. The last several years I had my darkroom I didn't use it.
The good thing about C41 is its in and out in a half an hour dry to dry and
its real hard for those people to mess up. I'm talking about someone else
doing it like in a mall while I read Mad magazine at the soda fountain
drinking a cherry coke with vanilla.
Xtol 1:3 or Rodinal at 1:75 are great developers if you've got your times
right and you don't mess up your agitation and your themomotor is not out of
whack and your rapid fix did not die but I'll take Pro 800 any day Kodak or
Fuji. Just like when you deal with a digital capture you have RGB to deal
with. Not just one channel. So I can filter later not ahead of time. And
decide later just which filter makes the pic look the best in black and
white. Or leave it in color. Which I do more and more.
Black and white has great gravitas but color is just too much fun.

The Research and development (R&D) on color neg film in the 80's and 90's
was 100/1 over chrome and black and white films I bet.
The 800 films today have the grain and sharpness of the 200 films of the day
before yesterdays And color neg films have the tonal latitude of nicely
developed black and white films. That compared to a stop in each direction
for slide films which are many f stops slower.. No no more slides for me or
black and white I'm a three channel color neg guy whenever I shoot film for
now on. No more 50 cents a click for bracketed chromes.

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Mark William Rabiner
Photography
mark at rabinergroup.com


> From: Kyle Cassidy <kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:57:59 -0400
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] someone want to sell me a developing tank & 120 reels?
> 
> I'd best post this now while the bad idea is still fresh in my head. I'd 
> like
> to get a Nikkor tank and two 120 reels (stainless w/ the stainless lid, 
> cause,
> you know, looks are more important than function). i gave all mine away 
> when i
> swore i'd never develop film again. but this freaking Hasselbad is STARING.
> AT. ME.
> 
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