Awesome product!

1920 · Mar 17, 2015

Just browsing around flea bay, I enjoy these "vintage lot of darkroom equipment!" ads, mostly for the laughs when folks attempt to describe and praise items they know nothing about.

Anyway, here's a great one- (hope this link works):look at the product in the lower right.Aeroprint! Convienient spray! Eliminates those pesky trays!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Camera-Darkroom-Equipment-Lot/301558513750?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid=222007&algo=SIC.MBE&ao=1&asc=20131003132420&meid=a1d61b44f57e457787e36dab8bb5fd33&pid=100005&rk=2&rkt=6&sd=291404936063&rt=nc

Wonder how well it worked!!??

Fixcinater · Mar 17, 2015

Link works. I bet it worked wonders!

[sarcasm]I also love when people put the same photo up 3 times...moving the taking camera just an inch to the right or left like it's showing so much more detail. [/sarcasm]

480sparky · Mar 17, 2015

I don't bother myself pondering what others think in these cases. Life's too short.

I'd rather go shoot something instead.

vdonovan · Mar 17, 2015

Those are really great. I wonder what the "Vibro Agitator" is? Is it really a photography product?

Trask · Mar 17, 2015

Yes, the Vibro Agitator is a photo product. I believe it's designed for the photog to place the developing tank on top, then switch it on -- the Agitator vibrates and so transmits the vibrations to the tank, thereby performing the "agitation" automatically, and with repeatability. I don't know if this LPL product provides constant agitation or intermittent agitation. Obviously one would have to a lot of testing to determine correct development times when using this device.

sagai · Mar 17, 2015

Trask said:
Yes, the Vibro Agitator is a photo product. I believe it's designed for the photog to place the developing tank on top, then switch it on -- the Agitator vibrates and so transmits the vibrations to the tank, thereby performing the "agitation" automatically, and with repeatability. I don't know if this LPL product provides constant agitation or intermittent agitation. Obviously one would have to a lot of testing to determine correct development times when using this device.

Advancing in life also gives you an ability to agitate thoroughly anything that you keep in your palm [emoji2]

AgX · Mar 17, 2015

"U-Spread" emulsion... I like that too.

AgX · Mar 17, 2015

That Aeroprint stuff in question are a developer and a fixer in pressurized spray cans.

1920 · Mar 18, 2015

AgX said:
"U-Spread" emulsion... I like that too.

Oh, I didn't even see that one! Wonder who made that?

I was too entranced with the spray developer concept!

I keep picturing one of these TV "infomercial" type "before and after" ads where the "before" person, shot in black and white, is helplessly struggling with a tray of developer, spilling it on the bench, etc……BUT NOW, with Aeroprint, you see her happily spraying Dektol, high on fumes and smiling…..

1920 · Mar 18, 2015

Trask said:
Yes, the Vibro Agitator is a photo product. I believe it's designed for the photog to place the developing tank on top, then switch it on -- the Agitator vibrates and so transmits the vibrations to the tank, thereby performing the "agitation" automatically, and with repeatability. I don't know if this LPL product provides constant agitation or intermittent agitation. Obviously one would have to a lot of testing to determine correct development times when using this device.

I work in Pharma lab environment, we have little bench mounted "Vortexers" .it has a rubber pad on top, the lab worker can hold a vial, beaker or test tube in contact with the pad, press the button, and it vibrates the solution for rapid and uniform mixing.

You could experiment with a tank of roll film as an agitation method if you had way way too much time on your hands.

Actually, might be useful for you guys that mix your own developers- they go for cheap used.

newcan1 · Mar 19, 2015

When I was a kid, a used an aerosol product to develop color prints with. This was probably back in the 70's or so. I remember not being impressed with the results...but I was too young to know what I was doing anyway.

Paul Howell · Mar 19, 2015

AgX said:
That Aeroprint stuff in question are a developer and a fixer in pressurized spray cans.

I seem to recall an article in either Popular or Modern Photography in the late 70s or early 80s, the idea was to spray on the developer and fixer to develop large mural size prints without the need for large trays or canoes, at time I wondered if you did not have trays large enough for the developer stop and fix how would you wash it, maybe just one tray for washing rather than 4 trays? I don't remember that it was tested, I never saw the product in a photo shop, someone may have used it.

U spread emulsion, we still have liquid emulsions same thing.

Awesome product!

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