Hallo everybody I've been happily using a 50ft Lomo tank for years, mine is the "old" model (UPB-1 - version 1). Now a friends of mine bought the "new" model (UPB-1A or version 2) and I'm teaching him how to use it.
As some of you probably now, the "new" one has a lower body than the "old" one (70mm against 78mm, here's the difference explained: https://sites.google.com/site/olexserviceskinor/processing-of-a-cine-film-in-home-laboratory/spiral-processing-tanks/upb-1-upb-1a-spiral-tanks?authuser=0). In the past I processed only super8 also with a "new" model, and it worked fine, but now, processing 16mm, I realized that a problem arises: the "new" one leaves a very tiny room for liquid to pass, so it takes a very long time to fill the tank, a problem that I never experienced with my "old" one. Long filling time makes developement uneven. When processing 2 x 16mm the problem is even worse: the gap is really thin, liquid takes ages to enter, and is also impossible to move the spiral up and down (my way of agitation). I thought of filling the tank first with liquid, and then dropping the spiral in the dark in the liquid, but is quite an hassle. Did you have the same issue? And what's your trick? Best Livio -- Frameworks mailing list [email protected] https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org
