Had never heard of those before Godfrey. I'm afraid that since I already have the stuff to do film in various ways (Stainless steel to Jobo) I'll never really need to switch, but very interesting, nonetheless!
On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > Experience similar to Mark's: stand development works well for some > film/developer combinations and not so well for others. I found it rather > inconsistent overall. > > I've gone in entirely the other direction: I bought a couple of Agfa Rondinax > 35U, Rondix 35, and Rondinax 60 daylight processing tanks. These are all > daylight loading, continuous motion processing systems. The 60 model is for > 120 film, the others for 35mm. I have been processing all my films, > regardless of emulsion, in them using HC110 diluted 1:49 from concentrate for > 8 minutes @ 68°F. They're simple to use, fast to process with (end to end > processing time from dry to hanging is about 24 minutes), and require no > darkroom or dark bag/tent. They're quite economical too: 4ml of developer > concentrate and 40ml of fixer concentrate, mixed fresh for 200mm of working > strength solution, will process three or four rolls of 36 exposure film. I > like the negatives this system produces. > > More info about them is here: https://rondinax.wordpress.com > > I particularly like the Rondix 35 tank: it is utter simplicity to use. > > G > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
