Mohmad up to now I did not know you are a preacher man?I am very sad to hear those defeatist words.
- I do not know what to say !
I really am shocked.
- The analog imaging community was still waiting (the legitimate heir to the AGFA Foundation) - and eventually - turned out to be a person (scared, hesitant, shaky).
Oh my God -
- It seems that we were waiting for mirage.
- Who competes with. !
Do you reflect the world and we are walking on the sky? !!!!
- Competitors should be afraid of you, not vice versa.
- You are not weak - you have a mighty weapon that perhaps is not available to competitors, is the weapon of love, yes love analog photography.
- Your Small Business - Why Take Successful Steps?
The reason for success is love and not money and business.
- Love caused God to send you support - get AGFA machine, that small machine at this reasonable price (this is a grant from God) because you deserve that grant because you are working for love.
- I am the oldest man on earth I am from Egypt and I will advise you for free advice - if you give up love you will not succeed.
- In practical and purely economic terms, if you look at the successes that you have achieved with great concentration, you will find that the hand of God intervened to make you succeed.
- Do not worry about competitors, they should worry about you.
You must invest the weapon of love and do not be afraid. You are supported by God and trust me.
A misunderstanding occurred ,,I think what the folks from ADOX are saying is that the currently marketed products for those equivalent processes are still available and produced in large enough quantities that there is not a market for them to produce a competitive product. ADOX is focused on producing what they can that is a complemet to what others sell, while assuring themselves that they have access to the technology needed to fill gaps.
if the process becomes unavailable- then they would consider making a replacement, assuming their is any film to process.
Hello dear brotherMohmad up to now I did not know you are a preacher man?
with regards
PS : But well done BTW!
PPS : Perhaps it will help a bit for nice pricing!
Yes a big prize awaits anyone who can make a developer pill and/or fixer pill that in tablet form last forever or a very long time, can be kept in a small container like headache pills are and simply added to water when the user is ready to develop a film.
No problem to me - I also pay attention to my weightHello dear brother
God bless you -
Yes I am a preacher man -
I am almost a fairly Islamic cleric -
I am fasting now - I have not eaten since 16 hours and a half.
I had not realised that Tetenal still make tablets and as far as I know these were for C41 only and only for the developer. Where can these be obtained now?Tetenal makes such since decades.
But as said, I see no great difference in handling to the Adox approach.
I had not realised that Tetenal still make tablets and as far as I know these were for C41 only and only for the developer. Where can these be obtained now?
Are you saying that a pill/tablet can be made for B&W film development that would allow 1 tablet per film so there no longer remains any worries about storage.
If this is the case then the avoidance of large volumes of water in delivery and the storage of the stock in a darkroom would be of great benefit to makers and users of developers.
If I could take out 1 tablet of say Xtol or DDX from a small container for 1 film and not have to worry about delivery costs and storage of stock solutions then depending on the premium charged this has to be a major benefit especially for a lot of small volume users
pentaxuser
+100ADOX
you folks are great !
Thank you !
John
I think tablets are silly. I would not buy. Especially if it was a effervescent bubbling concoction.Tetenal stopped them a long time ago for the consumer market but they might bring out new (old) things now that they have new owners.
Having the right amount of active substances is one thing but you also need a certain volume to develop a film. Xtol is a stock solution and if you dilute it you get different results. For DDX your aproach is closer. If we pressed our powders like they are dissolving them would be difficult. We would need to add the "bubble bath" effect ;-)
Even if you were an infrequent processor of colour film?I think tablets are silly. I would not buy. Especially if it was a effervescent bubbling concoction.
That's great. Not only does this keep the end user's darkroom dust free, I would think this helps Adox to keep a tidy shop, maybe avoid dust getting out of the facility.
We would be interested in feedback if this causes any trouble in extreme calcium high regions.
We do not think so because Berlin water is extremely hard and all is fine here with extra security but in case aynone has any such problem please report.
State of Iowa, USA has very high Calcium content in water. Most people in my city use whole house water softeners. So my issue is with not Lime but high sodium carbonate . I gave up trying to use "softened" water. I use reverse osmosis water for developers, most photo chemicals.You are absolutely right. The driving factor was not only to save photographers from (occasionally) inhaling hazardous substances in their darkroom but especially to keep our workers from having to do it every day. We still need the respirators on the initial mixing but after we add CAPTURA we can continue without any masks.
This actually decreases the labour costs in manufacturing which compensates the costs for CAPTURA.
BTW we also changed the chelating agent to a more environmentally friendly version (biodegradable).
We would be interested in feedback if this causes any trouble in extreme calcium high regions.
We do not think so because Berlin water is extremely hard and all is fine here with extra security but in case aynone has any such problem please report.
Never . Especially color. It's marketing nonsense. If you are taking the time and money to shoot color film, or any film you should process by the book. Quite frankly, I don't really understand people that shoot and develop 35mm color film only to scan it. Digital has displaced color negative in 35mm for me.Even if you were an infrequent processor of colour film?
Matt, here's a compromise. With modern packaging materials I would be open to using a modern version of Kodak's Tri-Chem-Pak. I would prefer liquids for color. The Tetenal liquid chemistry in separate components have excellent storage properties. I might even use blix. I think for E6 a 625 mL (my 1/8 of 5 L perfect for Jobo size) working solution, using the Tetenal chemicals in pouches. Might be cool. Especially if you could buy, at a discount, neat 600mL Jobo bottles to go with your new CPE 3 processor. Instead of people trying to split 5 liter kits. You could get a carton with enough packets for 3, 625mL batches. Enough for 5 or 6 rolls of Ektachrome or Fujichrome per batch.Even if you were an infrequent processor of colour film?
BTW we also changed the chelating agent to a more environmentally friendly version (biodegradable).
highly valuable improvement!View attachment 223164
We started ramping up the powder production in our new factory. This gave us the opportunity to finally introduce our long researched and prepared ADOX CAPTURA dust binding technology.
The above image is without and shows how much powder chemistry is dusting upon mixture.
CAPTURA releases the photographer from having to smell and inhale chemical powders while mixing up photo chemistry from powder packaging.
The powder now looks and feels "wet" when it comes from the packaging but it is not. It also keeps the powders from clogging up.
CAPTURA is water solvent, biodegradable and has no impact on photochemistry.
We will be upgrading all powder products to the new technology and we are also preparing more powder chemicals.
See how it works here:
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Matt, here's a compromise. With modern packaging materials I would be open to using a modern version of Kodak's Tri-Chem-Pak. I would prefer liquids for color. The Tetenal liquid chemistry in separate components have excellent storage properties. I might even use blix. I think for E6 a 625 mL (my 1/8 of 5 L perfect for Jobo size) working solution, using the Tetenal chemicals in pouches. Might be cool. Especially if you could buy, at a discount, neat 600mL Jobo bottles to go with your new CPE 3 processor. Instead of people trying to split 5 liter kits. You could get a carton with enough packets for 3, 625mL batches. Enough for 5 or 6 rolls of Ektachrome or Fujichrome per batch.
Couldn't afford how Ilford does this, it would need to be a snip the corner.
Now the big problem, who's got capital to set up such a packaging system? It would need to be done in-house, if you paid a toll vendor it would be too expensive.
Germany is quite possibly the center of the darkroom universe. Between Jobo, Adox and Tetenal. Joint marketing. KITS? ??
P.S. I still love you Ilford and EK.
Is this chelating technique?
I rather consider this a granulation technique, which involves, lesser and less specific inter-molecular forces.
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