Amazing plant and photograph

That's looks quite good considering the price of commercial tanks

Can you still buy thermometers that are accurate enough?
The Paterson Certified were something like +/- 0.2deg C.

I've still got an Ilford Digital +/- 0.1deg C but it might
have drifted off.

I just missed winning The Lottery when
the bloke next door WON!

There was a perfect example on ebay of what nonsense this method of bidding is link

A 28mm Pentax M lens with what the seller described as:
"HEAVY FUNGUS INSIDE LENS" It's worth £10 - £15 at the most but sold for an unbelieveable £41 + £3 postage all because of idiotic or shill bidding The last bid was so idiotic that no one else bid again and that bid stood for 3 days.

If you click on (6 bids) then "show automatic bids" you will see that within the 1st 24 hours someone put on a massive bid.
A day later a 2nd bidder came along and bid £5 not enough so he tried £8 still not enough, but he must have thought that was all the lens was worth so he pulled out. 3 days later he'd had 2nd thoughts and came back with a bid of £11.50.... still not enough, but he had the sense to leave it at that. Price now £12.

2 days later another bidder comes along and thinks I'll put on my max. bid and win this lens.... so he puts on £30..... He's flabber is totaly ghasted the price jumps to £31 and he isn't the high bidder.... not to be outdone he immediately bids £40 and the lens jumps to £41 and he isn't the high bidder He sensibly pulls out... the lens is full of fungus after all 3 days left and no further bids.

If the original bidder had put a snipe on he would have got the lens for £31 and that's with a 2nd foolish bidder knocking the price up from £12 to £31 in the space of one bid

The price was driven so high by TWO people putting on their highest prices.

I hope this doesn't offend Mark who's one of the nicest people on this forum Just trying to educate people towards a cheaper way of buying on ebay.

Edit: Just had a thought... the way some people have been pushing up the price of these lenses to way more than they are worth on here.... the buyer is probably in our midst

The last shot with the WR is sharper.

Stainless steel tanks are the best. Just tap the side to get rid of air bubbles and they are better for temperature control. They only use inversion agitation.... no twiddle stick

I've not done any developing for 10 years, but my final system was a motor driven water bath thingy with special plastic tanks (Jobo I think) It gave very consistent results and faster development times plus I didn't have to keep inverting the tank every 30 secs. Just set a countdown alarm to let me know when it's almost finished.

I used to use the Zone System so development had to be spot on. I even bought a densitometer so that I could check the densities

Paypal wouldn't work Simon. They would have to put their
passwords on your computer

Strange! Mine was manufactured 24th Feb. 2011 and has a bigger serial 466.... No problems so far

Great powerful Manual flashgun though