----- Original Message ----- From: "J. C. O'Connell" Subject: RE: Film vs Digita, was: lRe: Pentax is Dying?
> I use paper drums for sheet film and patterson tanks for roll film. > both using constant agitation with a "drum roller". Very consistant > results. Total investment in the equipment about $100. > I don't think people realize just how simple it is. Years ago (like 20 now), a friend wanted to try processing at home. He had the equipment, but he had little money to buy materials with. I segregated my overflow from my machines at work into seperate containers as it came out of the machines. My friend then collected the chemistry from my lab and used it "one shot" in his darkroom with very satisfactory results. In return for his disposing of my chemistry for me (we were so environmentally concious <g>), I processed his films for him. The equipment he used was amazingly crude. A dichroic enlarger in a closet and a tank that he rolled back and forth (or forth and back) on the kitchen counter. Temperature control was done by the flyby method. The chemistry was heated using one kitchen sink as a tempering bath, draining water and pouring hot from the tap as needed. The other kitchen sink, he used for washing his pictures. William Robb
