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Road ruts with Jobo
Randy Stewart wrote:
"Tom Thackrey" wrote in message om... On 23-Jan-2004, (Michael Scarpitti) wrote: Mechanical agitation that is invarying inevitably will be harder to control than manual agitation using inversion in a standard tank. The allure of mechanization is obvious, but I process exclusively by hand, and never have uneven development. Gee and I thought consistancy was the objective. I didn't realize that varying agitation was part of the creative process. ;- -- Tom Thackrey Gee Tom, I don't think that agistation methods, apart from some extremes, have anything to do with "the creative process" either, but then mechanical drum processing of your film doesn't guarantee "consistency" which is worth achieving, as this thread as demonstrated. Mr. Sccarpitti's style does get very far with me, so I find it stange to take his side on this point. However the inherent problems of constant agistation of the type provided by Jobo, What _are_ the _inherent problems_ of constant agitation? AFAIK, the only problem is the contrast is higher, and that is completely controlled by decreasing the development time or increasing the dilution of the developer. or which I dealt with for more than a decade using a similar processer, are well documented and discussed in The Film Developing Cookbook. Why do I _never_ get uniformity problems with my Jobo CPE-2? If I were getting uniformity problems, surely I could measure them with the TD-901, and I do not see that. Hand done, intermitant agitation is not as convenient as a drum processor, but it does avoid the problems discussed in this thread, and should yield marginally better negatives for most people. It's just a question of whether your drum processor result are okay for you and you put a premium on the convenience, in which case, keep on "rolling". Randy Stewart -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ Registered Machine 73926. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 11:00pm up 17 days, 10:26, 2 users, load average: 2.12, 2.21, 2.13 |
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