Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/29

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Presoak
From: Johnny Deadman <deadman@jukebox.demon.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 21:36:23 +0000

on 29/2/00 7:50 pm, Mark Rabiner at mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com wrote:

> 
> Kodak also recommends against presoak for at least a decade. I'm sure Fuji
> does
> too! (I'm going to check on that) I've tried not presoaking, it does not work
> for me. Killer Air-Bells from Hell when you least want or need them!!!

I'm with the presoak as airbells are horrible, but do you extend the dev
time? The less rapid uptake of dev into emulsion is supposed to suppress
contrast (= need to extend dev time for equivalent gamma).
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