Hi Paul ... I've heard of AP - vaguely recall reading something about their product line a couple of years ago - but I've not seen their products here.
Plastic reels are usually difficult, if not impossible, to load unless they're absolutely dry, although when dry, a well-designed plastic reel is often very easy to load, especially by a novice. BTW, I processed some APX 25 tonight using Rodinal 1:100. The film was exposed a year ago and got lost in the back of the refrigerator, and the Rodinal was from the bottom quarter of a small bottle that had been opened almost a year ago as well. It looked like sewage - brown, and with some crystallization. I was going to toss it and open a fresh bottle, but there was an article I read just a few weeks ago that said Rodinal has extraordinary keeping power, so i decided to put the statement to the test. Well, that old film and grungy looking developer produced some great looking negatives. Paul Jones wrote: > > I've used paterson, jobo, AP (plastic) and hewes and nikkor stainless steel. > Then i found that AP make two different models, one with a big tongue area > to put the film in and they are great, i dont think you really could get > much easier to load. There standard one is a copy of the plastic jobo, i > think and it is really crap. > > AP make some pretty average equipment, but these reels are excellent. -- Shel Belinkoff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/ "If you are a bad technician, it doesn't matter how big your negs are." - W. Robb - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
