Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan For EI=100 film you expose at EI=50. But do not half the developing time. Multiply the developing time for your temperature by 0.85 to get the actual developing time. For e.g. if your recommended developing time is 10 minutes, the actual time should be 10 x 0.85 = 8.5 minutes. Dan K. At 12:43 AM 23/10/98 +0100, you wrote: >Dan, > >Thanks for the advice; so you are suggesting exposing at EI=50 and developing >50% shorter. I will give it a try, although I must say that I get very nice >results with this film and Ilfosol S, yielding a speed of 80-100, so the >results with the combination you suggest would really have to be superior to >give up the one stop. As for room temperature--well, you live in steamy >Singapore, but I am in cold, rainy Belgium, and my darkroom (which is also my >wine cellar) has a temperature of about 15C this time of year. So I just warm >up the developer to 20C in a warm water bath, and then let the other chemicals >(and the wash water) stay at the ambient temperature. > >Nathan > >D Khong wrote: > >> Try over exposing your B&W one shot and the pull back the developing time >> by 15%. You'll get much finer grain and better shadow details. Dilution >> 1:1 to 1:3 seem to bring out the best in XTOL. Best used at whatever your >> room temperature is to avoid temperature fluctuations. Mine is used at >> 27degC. >> >> Dan K. > > > >-- >Nathan Wajsman >Manager, Commercial Management >AT&T-Unisource Communications Services v.o.f. >1945 Chaussée de Wavre, 1160 Brussels, BELGIUM >Tel. +32 2 676 3683 (Brussels) or +31 23 569 7516 (Hoofddorp) >Fax +32 2 676 3874 (Brussels) or +31 23 569 7533 (Hoofddorp) >Mobile +32 75 494 102 >E-mail: nathan.wajsman@euronet.be > > >