Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/04/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:08 PM 4/1/97 +0200, you wrote: >Could this person please tell me what does it change to use it at full strength, or at each of the different dilutions? I find the info that kodak has on the internet, insufficient. >>Also, when I use it at full strength(supposedly reusable for an amount of rolls) and keep it in the common black plastic bottle, when I want to reuse it for the second time, after some days, it has a grey color, totally different from the transparent color it had after the first use. Is this normal? If it is not, I am worried that it could be my chrome M6 dying its color into the negatives and them to the developer. > Nicholas: I wrote about using Xtol, but I use it with a Jobo processor and develop six rolls at a time. I dump it after each use. The only reason for me to change the dilution would be to use a different time or temperature. Of course, it is cheaper the more you dilute it, but you do have a longer developing time. Sometime in the summer the water temperature here doesn't go below 85 degrees so a weaker dilution would come in handy. Xtol seems to be a versatile developer that works great with black and white film exposed in Leica cameras :-) (I got Leica in there, too.) Tina Images by Tina Manley, ASMP images@infoave.net <http://www.photogs.com/manley/index.html>