Ryan, The Jobo cost me $2,000 2nd hand about 5 or 6 years ago. A couple went for not much less on eBay Aus a couple of months back.
The ATL does almost everything. It tempers the chemistry, it times, it agitates and it changes the solutions. But it simply dumps the solutions, and to get the full capacity of colour chemistry you need to catch it as it drains out, and return it to the storage bottles for later use (the bigger Jobo Autolabs will do that). It will only temper the solution to be used for the next batch, you need to temper the larger storage bottles outside the processor. If you don't, the processor itself will need to warm the solutions up from room temperature, which is slow. I get them to about 36 degrees Celsius so the Jobo only has to warm them up 1 or 2 degrees. You also need to have a tempered rinse, to within a degree for C41 or less than half a degree for E6 (0.3 degrees C IIRC). My water heater could never stay in those limits, so I use a 40l header tank to feed rinse water to the Jobo, it's volume gives it enough thermal mass to stay in range for the length of the process, and a recirculating pump keeps tempered water right up to the Jobo's inlet valve. And, of course, I use filtered water to mix solutions and to fill the header tank. So, it's not dead easy, but it is logical and, for all but the terminally clumsy it should be do-able. The first time you see 'chromes that you've processed yourself is when you know it's worth it :-) Unfortunately my darkroom won't see any action before at least mid '05 :-( regards, Anthony Farr ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > lol yeah! Do they x-ray interstate mail? :) I've never developed film before > (though I've done darkroom printing), but don't they say c41's tricky. You > seem pretty pleased- what's your Jobo ATL1000 worth, and was it worth it? > > Regards, > Ryan >
