[Leica] Film processing in almost clean water?

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Hi Jim,
Later I'll post how it was taking a "darkroom on assignments!" So when you
checked into your hotel / motel and turned the "bathroom as such into a
darkroom!" Souped film, used a hair dryer for drying the film as you waved
it about in the humid bathroom air! :-) Made prints and transmitted to the
wire! Re-pack and leave hotel next morning at 6 a.m. Arrive at new hotel 12
hours later or more after covering the events of the day while flying about
the country to several locations shooting up a storm! :-0 Arrive new hotel,
Re-make darkroom, soup film, make prints, transmit, tear down, re-pack ready
to leave for airport 6 a.m. Oh yeah and try to find time to eat and sleep
all at the same time! 

THEN? 12 hours later set it all up again! :-) 

Concerns about purity of water?????? Only if you were going to mix it with
your faithful bottle of Lagavulin single malt scotch!!!!! :-)  TRUE! :-)

Aw it was a time when real photographers did it all without a whine! But
only if you ran out of Scotch at 3 a.m.! :-) 

cheers,
ted.   :-) 



-----Original Message-----
From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf 
Of
Jim Shulman
Sent: July-06-14 12:29 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Film processing in almost clean water?

Sounds about right to me! Just pulled another 3 rolls of 120 from the tank.

Jim shulman
Wynnewood, PA
On Jul 6, 2014 2:50 PM, "Ted Grant" <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:

> MANY HAVE VOICED REGARDING FILM DEVELOPING ?
>
> ME? First of all, many of you already know I generally have survived my
> wild
> and crazy photo life only because there's been a "HAND OF GUIDANCE ALONG
> THE
> WAY!" :-) If not I surely wouldn't be here?
>
> My development of film?  KISS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Always! :-) Makes life so
> much
> easier! :-)
>
> Pour developer into tank, warm or cool to proper processing temperature.
>
> Turn out the lights, open film cassettes, load reels, drop in tank,  bang
> on
> lid turn on lights and shake film containers gently. Timer is ticking time
> off. Turn can upside down every minute gently. OR? If souping 8 rolls at a
> time? Turn out lights, "TOTAL DARKNESS!" Lift lid take rod of reels gently
> lift and rotate a couple of times. Replace lid, turn on lights & complete
> this routine every minute until buzzer goes.
>
> Time is up, Buzzer goes, dump stuff down the sink, pour in "STOP BATH,
> shake
> well, dump, pour in fixer, shake well and after a couple of minutes, lid
> off. Can drained back into fixer bottle and washing begins running water
> from tap.. Basically it doesn't get any more KISS SIMPLE than that! :-)
>
> Washing complete, add a couple of drops of Photo-flo, lift reel rod, take
> reel in hand, snap arm and hand toward floor a couple of times to shake
off
> excess liquids. Then into film drying cabinet made from an old high school
> tall thin locker complete with air filters and electric powered fans. Dust
> free drying 100%'
>
> Done? Off to light table for cutting in strips of 6 or 7 frames & into
> sleeves! Then off to darkroom for contact-editing sheets. File neg sheets
> in
> 3 ring binders with contacts and info on contact sheets. :-)
>
> And guess what? We have negatives around here over 50 or more years old
> that
> look not bad at all.:-) And still print beautifully with modern electronic
> equipment!  Today? Scan,print! :-)
>
> Done! How much simpler can it get? Think about it for a second or two???
> "SHOOT DIGITAL!!!!!!!!!!!" ;-)
>
> Jeeeeeeeeeesssssssshhhhhhhh! :-) Gotta love it! :-) :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Dr. ted :-)
>
>
>
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