Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Re: RE: Tri-X and Kodak vs Ilford?
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 01:57:15 -0800

Eric Welch wrote:
> 
> At 05:12 PM 2/17/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >In any event, if this is a problem or concern, you should perhaps switch to
> >a more powerful rapid-type fixer.
> 
> As I understand it, that is really the only way to fix TMax films. The
> non-rapid fixer does take a long time. But I've only used rapid-fixer
> because that's what Kodak recommends, and I don't like mixing powders if at
> all possible.
> 
> Eric Welch
> St. Joseph, MO
> http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch
> 
Getting the pink out of TMax is no picnic. In my experience, contrary to
yours if you didn't fix it out it wouldn't wash out and it did show up
in the printing. You had to fix it in rapid fix no hardener till the
cows come home.
Mark Rabiner