Hi Butch, The details are 'Tetenal, Colortec C-41 Phototabs, Negative Kit, Art. Nr 102223, Mono Tab technology'.
The developer and B/F come in three large plastic tubes, just like Alka Seltzer -- but bigger. The Stabilizer is in an aluminium foil laminate packet and each tab makes 1 litre of solution. The other tabs make 150 ml. But two Bleach/Fix tabs are needed for 150 ml of solution. The kit will handle 12 36 exposure films or 24 APS rolls. But I have already processed 5 x 24 in the first 300 ml and in a few minutes will be doing a sixth. As I said, I made a double quantity which covers one 35mm spiral in my Kindermann tank. The tank takes 6 x 35mm reels and this makes it very convenient for my 45 degree inclined rotating method of processing. The tank sits in a frame in the waterbath and can be turned by a small motor with a rubber wheel, or by hand. The motor was not a great success and I don't use it now. The wheel slipped if the top of the tank got wet; needs redesign and it's not worth the trouble. The colours are fine and scan well. *But* the only ordinary pictures I've processed so far are half a dozen of an owl in a tree. The others are all photomicrographs and the colours are not what you would call 'normal'. Often very red or blue if I use an HBO50 short arc burner as a light source. I also use interference filters a lot and crossed polarisers. The owl turned out quite well considering the camera was hand held (P30T with the Sigma 400 mm, 500 at 5.6). I've taken about 800 photo-micrographs over the last month or two -- very few using any Pentax gear at all. The Wild automatic camera requires no exposure measuring or messing about with cable releases and so on. That's one reason why I have been off-list for a while. But I shall continue to make a few pictures using a Pentax body for PUG. But as soon as Spring has sprung I'll be outside with the Pentaxes as usual. Don _______________ Dr E D F Williams http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams Author's Web Site and Photo Gallery See Extra Pages 'The Cement Company from HELL!' Updated: August 15, 2003 "Oh my God! They've killed Teddy!" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Butch Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 1:55 AM Subject: RE: P: C-41' Tabs' kit > Don Wrote: > > Last week I tried to order some C-41 chemicals from the Finnish distributor > of Tetenal -- I usually order a 3 x 1 litre kit and divide it into 500 ml > lots -- but they were out of stock. Instead the rep offered me five 'Tabs' > kits (150 ml doses that do two films each -- for the price of two. I took > them. > > Don, Who manufactures the tabs? I know that Konica for a while has offered > dry tabs for their mini labs. Did the film print or scan normally for you? > > Butch > > Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself. > > Hermann Hesse (Demian) > > >
