Oh shoot.. mid 05.. I have to wait that long before sending you my film to develop?? ;)
Cheers, Ryan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Farr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 11:15 PM Subject: Re: Ryan's buck-earning endeavour > 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 > > > > >
