Sold Free for cost of shipping - Vintage Film Developing Tanks (or what creative uses have you found for a collection of vintage film developing tanks)

[Todd Barlow]

Take 1 or take them all.
I have amassed a decent collection of these developing tanks that do not get used, do you collect them? Do you have an alternate use for for them?
Shipping from Cambridge Ontario, Canada.

All the best
Todd

 

[Cholentpot]

The Yankee's are useful for 16mm/110 but that's about it for me.

 

[George Mann]

I am looking for a water-tight model with agitator for 35mm.

Which of these fit that desciption?

 

[AgX]

The two Jobo tanks should have got a twisting stick.
But they are intended for inverting too.

(But that does not necessarily make them water-tight. Jobo applied different designs of sealing in that period.)

 

[BradS]

Those three in the front row bring back the memories....summerschool 1975 photography and computers...thanks.

 

[M-88]

Those three in the front row bring back the memories....summerschool 1975 photography and computers...thanks.

I have such tank. It has the twirly thingie (which doubles as a thermometer) and in spite of warnings to never use such tank, it works pretty well.

 

[George Mann]

The Patterson Universal Model II looks like one I may be interested in.

The Jobo's are neat, but which of these tanks works best for easy draining and filling with 35mm?

 

[AgX]

Concerning the funnel they most likely are quite similar, what differs is their max. volume, what also has influence on these times

 

[AgX]

I know, once -matic was the suffix of choice... but what could it mean concerning the Ansco tank?
I guess a pseudo-ratched loading feature as with Jobo tanks.

 

[BradS]

I know, once -matic was the suffix of choice... but what could it mean concerning the Ansco tank?
I guess a pseudo-ratched loading feature as with Jobo tanks.

I think that 'Anscomatic' was just a brand name. We had the exact same tanks but branded as GAF....if I remember correctly, these had adjustable plastic reels similar to the modern Patterson system IV reels. The little thermometer/twizzle stick was exactly the same too. The tanks were easy to use but were not suitable for inversion processing.

Hmmm, there were also Kodak tanks...I may be getting things confused. One had nifty adjustable plastic reeels and the other had a gooffy and fragile but very easy to use plastic 'apron' inside? I'm pretty sure that the Kodak tanks had the apron and the GAF tanks had adjustable plastic reels.

 

[BradS]

I am looking for a water-tight model with agitator for 35mm.

Which of these fit that desciption?

I'm sure the three labelled 'Ansomatic' in the front row would suit you...as long as you do not wish to do inversion. The plastic reels are adjustable and, iirc, will accommodate 35mm or 120...and possible 110 ??? It's been a long time.

 

[George Mann]

What does one gain from inversion?

 

[BradS]

What does one gain from inversion?

Other than the propensity to introduce surge marks and defects due to air bubbles?
but seriously, I don't know. I don't use inversion and never have.

The topic probably deserves a thread of its own though.

 

[FriedLouisStudio]

We had some of those plastic apron "Kodacraft" tanks in my parents' studio. I used them in my childhood roll film days for 127, 120, and 828/126/35mm. I eventually gave them all to a friend who liked using them. We also had KIndermann and Nikon stainless steel reels/tanks... and despite being professionals, we never used them. Frankly, we all found loading them a chore.

Those Anscomatic tanks were what we used every day for decades, and what I'm still using now. I've got three or four. Adjustable film-size plastic tanks meant for amateurs, but I've developed hundreds (thousands?) of rolls in them going back to the 60s. They shouldn't be able to hold up to such heavy use, but they have.

One of my dad's favorite photography mottos was: "An amateur knows how to follow the rules. A professional knows how to break them." So yeah, we were professionals using "amateur" developing tanks for volumes of film they weren't meant to endure!

 

[mshchem]

We had some of those plastic apron "Kodacraft" tanks in my parents' studio. I used them in my childhood roll film days for 127, 120, and 828/126/35mm. I eventually gave them all to a friend who liked using them. We also had KIndermann and Nikon stainless steel reels/tanks... and despite being professionals, we never used them. Frankly, we all found loading them a chore.

Those Anscomatic tanks were what we used every day for decades, and what I'm still using now. I've got three or four. Adjustable film-size plastic tanks meant for amateurs, but I've developed hundreds (thousands?) of rolls in them going back to the 60s. They shouldn't be able to hold up to such heavy use, but they have.

One of my dad's favorite photography mottos was: "An amateur knows how to follow the rules. A professional knows how to break them." So yeah, we were professionals using "amateur" developing tanks for volumes of film they weren't meant to endure!

Ansco held patents that (rightly or wrongly) kept Paterson from the US markets for many years. Not sure what changed but I got my first Paterson tank In the early 70's (1970's )