From: Joachim Oppenheimer (joachim@microdsi.net)
Date: 04/29/02-09:23:08 PM Z
I am so delighted to find a fellow admirer of the wiggly plastic reels and
tanks. Another emperor caught in the bare. I, too, have felt that the steel
reels for developing 35/120 film were created by the same fellow who made
those 12th century chastity belts for the ladies. And frankly, with a fair
amount of training in chemistry under my belt I never swallowed the myth
that steel was purer than bakelite and modern plastics, and thus less likely
to contaminate. When I discovered that the Brits made plastic reels that
wiggled I decided that the wrong side won the battle at Lexington.
Unfortunately, 20+ years of use have degraded my stock of these delightful
tanks and I am open to any recommendation for wiggly plastic tanks and
reels, if such are known to you. I mostly do 8x10 in trays, but have you
ever tried photographing grandchildren with an 8x10 camera on a 30# tripod?
BTW glass rods make great cocktail stirrers but lousy paint brushes. Joachim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Judy Seigel [mailto:jseigel@panix.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 10:46 PM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: Re: problem with double coating for cyanotypes
>
>
>
> On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Sandy King wrote:
> > I really wonder if the glass rod is the optimum way to coat any of
> > the alternative processes? With every process I have tried brush
> > coating has given me more consistent and reliable results than rod
> > coating, though it uses a bit more chemistry. I am sure that this
> > waste is an important consideration for those doing platinum Pt/Pd
> > printing. However, as the size of the print gets larger there is less
> > waste with the brush than with small prints, and this is true even
>
> Sandy, I'm delighted you say that. I got the feeling that REAL alt
> photographers were supposed to do glass rod. Of course I wasn't going
> to do it for gum, but didn't take to it for anything else either....
>
> So another myth bites the dust?
>
> (In school they made us feel like sissies if we didn't develop 35 mm on
> the stainless steel reel... If the salesman at Olden hadn't come up with
> that plastic wiggle reel I wasn't going to be a photographer... What was
> his name? Joel somebody?)
>
> best,
>
> Judy
>
>
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