APS Darkroom

[Vonder]

Did anyone ever sell equipment for developing APS at home and enlarging it with a traditional enlarger?

 

[AgX]

Yes, tools to manipulate the cassette. Well, they were aimed at commercial labs...

 

[railwayman3]

I looked into this some years ago, and found nothing specifically produced for home darkroom APS work. The only items appeared to be attachments for APS cassettes for some scanners (these still seem to sell well on Ebay....).

 

[Mick Fagan]

There was an article in Creative camera and Darkroom Techniques, if I remember correctly.

The only problem to be overcome was the removal of the film so you could develop it, which, if I remember rightly, wasn't too hard to get around.

I have every issue from about the second year up until they moved over to electronic photography, then I stopped, marvelous resource.

Mick.

 

[AgX]

The only problem?

One had to modify the reel to 24mm film width.

 

[AgX]

Jobo once made a reel for the 2500 series apt for APS.

 

[CatLABS]

Jobo once made a reel for the 2500 series apt for APS.

As a strange occurrence, we recently got an APS Jobo reel. Its brand new, and we have nothing to do with it.
Its yours for postage if you can use it.

We can manufacture these special 2500 system reels for APS on order, but do not have any on hand other then this one, though this would be the ideal way to run C-41 APS rolls...

 

[DWThomas]

There is a plastic tool that has two different ends, one to open the film gate in the APS cartridge, and one to turn the cartridge spindle; but a small screwdriver and a piece of dowel could be used to improvise. I've not measured, but I wonder if some of the old adjustable plastic roll film tanks will adjust down to the needed size. I own a couple of the aforementioned tools, but I was only interested in getting the negatives out to scan for the web.

Here's an example of the tools.

And here's getting the film out with improvised tools

 

[AgX]

Yes, these are those I referrd to above.

 

[StoneNYC]

I have a few extra "FR Special" tank and reels that will develop APS, $20 plus shipping. It's old and can only be used to rotate agitate you can't invert and have to feed it manually (no auto load ball bearings) but it works.


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