Newbie question: Is Jobo the way to go for large format negs?

Paul Atreides wrote in message ...
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PGG wrote:


Based on this and other threads, it is obvious that you don't even shoot
sheet film. Right?

He does not, because that might require him to actually learn
photography or "gasp" The Zone system.

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jjs wrote:

What do you all think of a poor-man's solution for the Jobo Expert 4x5 drum:
use my winter-processing B&W technique - float the drum in a tub of
temperature controlled water and manually rotate it, reversing direction
randomly. It can't be too hard to come up with a way to pour in the
chemistry. (The drum will float won't it? )



The drum most likely will float, but with an appropriate amount of
liquid, plus film in it, it may either a) float in an inconvenient
orientation, like a 45 degree angle (rather than on its side) or b)
float so low your water bath tries to enter the filler/drain hole in the
center of the lid.

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-- E. J. Fudd, 1954

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Opinions expressed are my own -- take them for what they're worth
and don't expect them to be perfect.

jjs wrote:

What do you all think of a poor-man's solution for the Jobo Expert 4x5 drum:
use my winter-processing B&W technique - float the drum in a tub of
temperature controlled water and manually rotate it, reversing direction
randomly. It can't be too hard to come up with a way to pour in the
chemistry. (The drum will float won't it? )



The drum most likely will float, but with an appropriate amount of
liquid, plus film in it, it may either a) float in an inconvenient
orientation, like a 45 degree angle (rather than on its side) or b)
float so low your water bath tries to enter the filler/drain hole in the
center of the lid.

--
I may be a scwewy wabbit, but I'm not going to Alcatwaz!
-- E. J. Fudd, 1954

Donald Qualls, aka The Silent Observer
Lathe Building Pages http://silent1.home.netcom.com/HomebuiltLathe.htm
Speedway 7x12 Lathe Pages http://silent1.home.netcom.com/my7x12.htm

Opinions expressed are my own -- take them for what they're worth
and don't expect them to be perfect.

Marco Milazzo wrote in message . ..
I want to do 4 X 5 and 8 X 10 Large negs. I don't have a darkroom
with running water, but I do have a (not completely dark) bathroom. I
assume I can load Jobo tanks in the dark and do all other processing
in the light -- correct?

Any advantages or disadvantages of Jobo over tray-development?

Is there a better way to go than Jobo?

TIA,
Marco

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Marco Milazzo wrote in message . ..
I want to do 4 X 5 and 8 X 10 Large negs. I don't have a darkroom
with running water, but I do have a (not completely dark) bathroom. I
assume I can load Jobo tanks in the dark and do all other processing
in the light -- correct?

Any advantages or disadvantages of Jobo over tray-development?

Is there a better way to go than Jobo?

TIA,
Marco

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ayphotohosting

Marco Milazzo wrote in message . ..
I want to do 4 X 5 and 8 X 10 Large negs. I don't have a darkroom
with running water, but I do have a (not completely dark) bathroom. I
assume I can load Jobo tanks in the dark and do all other processing
in the light -- correct?

Any advantages or disadvantages of Jobo over tray-development?

Is there a better way to go than Jobo?

TIA,
Marco

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ayphotohosting

Paul Atreides wrote:
: In article ,
: David Nebenzahl wrote:

:
: Let's take a little poll and let the majority (that is not to say
: super-majority) decide: how many here believe that hangers are the best way
: to
: develop sheet film? Show of hands?
:
: BZZZZZZZZT!
:
: Thought so: Scar-pity: 0, everyone else: ___ (fill in number of posters here)
:
: It's so painfully obvious that you, the shrill decrier of those who blindly
: follow received wisdom (the Zoan Sistum in your case) are a sheep-like
: follower of some bad advice dispensed by the Great Yellow Father some years
: ago. Or who knows where you got that bad advice. Who the hell cares, anyhow?

: Not only that he has the nerve to claim Hasselblad is the only MF camera
: in the MF group,......what an ass he is.

My favorite was when he went to the LF group and started insisting that everyone switch
to leicas!!
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Keep working millions on welfare depend on you
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Paul Atreides wrote:
: In article ,
: David Nebenzahl wrote:

:
: Let's take a little poll and let the majority (that is not to say
: super-majority) decide: how many here believe that hangers are the best way
: to
: develop sheet film? Show of hands?
:
: BZZZZZZZZT!
:
: Thought so: Scar-pity: 0, everyone else: ___ (fill in number of posters here)
:
: It's so painfully obvious that you, the shrill decrier of those who blindly
: follow received wisdom (the Zoan Sistum in your case) are a sheep-like
: follower of some bad advice dispensed by the Great Yellow Father some years
: ago. Or who knows where you got that bad advice. Who the hell cares, anyhow?

: Not only that he has the nerve to claim Hasselblad is the only MF camera
: in the MF group,......what an ass he is.

My favorite was when he went to the LF group and started insisting that everyone switch
to leicas!!
--




Keep working millions on welfare depend on you
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Michael Scarpitti wrote:
: Paul Atreides wrote in message ...
: In article ,
: (Michael Scarpitti) wrote:
:
: Hangers are the best way to develop sheet film, moron.
:
: Bullcrap.

: What the **** do you know?

He knows enough to know that using hangers is a bad way to develop sheet film.

How long have you been doing photography,
: infant child? I've been at it 40 years.

All that time and you still haven't learned anything about good composition, proper
exposure or how to print a negative. I would have hoped that in thirty years you would
have learned something.
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Keep working millions on welfare depend on you
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Michael Scarpitti wrote:
: Paul Atreides wrote in message ...
: In article ,
: (Michael Scarpitti) wrote:
:
: Hangers are the best way to develop sheet film, moron.
:
: Bullcrap.

: What the **** do you know?

He knows enough to know that using hangers is a bad way to develop sheet film.

How long have you been doing photography,
: infant child? I've been at it 40 years.

All that time and you still haven't learned anything about good composition, proper
exposure or how to print a negative. I would have hoped that in thirty years you would
have learned something.
--




Keep working millions on welfare depend on you
-------------------