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Farside
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 Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 10:36 pm Post subject: Tabletop film processor |
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Farside wrote:
Low-end Jobos are fetching too much for all that's in them so I picked up a Paterson Colortherm fairly cheaply to start off with.
It works out at €1 a film (35mm)  or two quid per 120. 
Advertising bullshit of the day.
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Jesito
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| Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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Jesito wrote:
Are you accepting developing orders?. 
Nice set!.
Regards,
Jes.
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Farside
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| Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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Farside wrote:
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| Are you accepting developing orders?. |
Alas, no. It would cease to be a hobby, then.
Actually, there's still a niche to be filled at the right price and plenty of old minilabs going cheaply.
I was tempted by one, but the only way I could justify spending several hundred on a small pro machine would be batch processing in some volume, but it would take a year to build up enough films to reach that stage and that's pointless.
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GrahamNR17
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| Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 11:35 am Post subject: |
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GrahamNR17 wrote:
Nice find, congrats 
As you say, Jobo still fetch silly prices. missed this exact model recently on fleabay, it went for 12 quid
I've now started to make my own so I can get some C41 done at home (Tesco minilab was hugely variable). I've now got my temperature control to +/- 0.6 degrees C, so pretty happy with it. I just need to isolate the electric with an RCD as all that submerged mains electricity is a bit scary |
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Farside
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| Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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Farside wrote:
I was going to just make one up from scratch myself, after seeing how really easy it is now. I think the films and the chemistry have improved in leeway over the past few decades, so are just a bit more foolproof. I recall when the Jobos and the like first appeared, how all the journos of the day stressed how important pinpoint control of temp was and how difficult it would be to do it on the fly. It was probably true then, and I let that put me off the idea. Also, colour chemicals then weren't cheap or available in small quantities - not easily anyway.
As it turned out, I spotted this one and decided to give it a go and damn the torpedos. I found a chemical supplier in Dublin (Gunns Camera) and even including carriage cost, the price per film drops to ~63cents for a Fuji X-Press 5L kit. In the UK, Firstcall sell the same kit for £32 +p&p.
http://www.firstcall-photographic.co.uk/shop/categories/colour-film-chemicals/0/fuji/fuji-c-41-film-x-press-kit-5-litres/.
I was going to give it a start with a 1L kit, but may as well get this one instead.
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Farside
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| Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 2:10 pm Post subject: F&*9i^ng DHL! |
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Farside wrote:
Well, it arrived. On the bright side all the pieces were there, in the one box. Trouble is, it arrived with several more pieces than it set out with. The impacts the box suffered were so severe that several items inside and buried in peanuts were broken too.
Arse, arse, arse. 
I'm waiting for the seller to offer me a refund, as this is beyond sensible repair.
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LucisPictor
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LucisPictor wrote:
Oh, that's bad!
I hope you get back your money.
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Orio wrote:
sorry, that looks bad 
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GrahamNR17
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GrahamNR17 wrote:
NO! 
Oh shit, why are some sellers such total twats with packing - makes me so bloody angry 
All that great kit gone to waste, all for want of some forethought  |
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Farside
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Farside wrote:
Yep, this one is down to the seller, even though the brutal bastards at DHL caused the damage. There was no padding at the ends of the box - the processer being a tight fit into the box he used.
Ffs, all he had to do was cut'nshut the box and slide a few layers of bubblewrap in, or even simply attach some to the outside ends.
I always pack in the expectation of it encountering some morons, somewhere along the line.
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GrahamNR17
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| Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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GrahamNR17 wrote:
I hope you get somewhere with the seller. If not, there are parts I could use and will pay appropriately.
Hope it doesn't come to that for you though. Fingers crossed  |
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