On 2012-09-25 13:58, Jan Faul wrote:
Yeah, my lab does my b/w film. as in MY lab, in the barn. Stainless steel and reels, not Jobo.
I got thoroughly conditioned on stainless steel before plastic reels got good, and I'm still much more comfortable with it.
We’ve tried everything and oil mounting is messy, involves inhaling toxic fumes, and can be done without.
The Scan Science stuff isn't oil-based and isn't particularly messy, I'm told. Volatile, evaporates instead of having to be cleaned off. They claim it's *less* toxic than some competitors. Ah, there's an MSDS online at <http://www.parrotcolor.com/data_pdfs/Lumina_MSDS.pdf>. Sounds somewhat more benign than many things which are hydrocarbon-based.
The easiest way to spot is to send them to India, but it ends up being pricey in spite of their low rates. The low rate is for a 25MB file.
Makes sense that somewhere with low wages would be good, and only data has to be transmitted, so it's not slow either.
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