Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's a developer that I would like to like. The local professional darkroom uses it, and they have given me my absolute best TRI-X negatives. I have been storing it in 500ml amber bottles (filled to the top). But some of the negatives I've gotten from it after 6 months have been really bad. That's why I would rather not keep it long. It is cheap enough that I could afford to mix new each month or two, but I hate pouring unused developer down the drain. Jeffery Smith New Orleans, LA http://www.400tx.com http://400tx.blogspot.com/ -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Leonard Taupier Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 7:47 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Has this ever happened to one of you? Hello, Jeffery, I've never had XTOL go bad on me. Maybe I'm just lucky but what I do is mix up the full 5 liters and then fully fill 5, 1 quart Bell canning jars, right to the top (a little left over for a 6th bottle). I then cover each jar with the blue plastic Hellmans (Best) 30 oz mayonnaise jar tops (remove cardboard inner liner) . I use the partial 6th bottle first. It is a perfect, tight fit to the Ball jars. As long as the XTOL is perfectly clear, it is good. Once it gets a slight yellowish tint I throw it out. I have never had a full bottle turn, only when it gets down to the last 3 or 4 ozs. I use XTOL 1:1 and generally use the 5 liters within 2 months or so (about 28 rolls of 135). There are no local shops that carry XTOL so I buy it from B&H. I also find that XTOL works pretty well with just about any film. I hope this info is helpful to anyone that wants to try XTOL. Len On Dec 3, 2006, at 8:12 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote: > What I like about XTOL is that it is very easy to mix. What I hate > about it > is that it looks perfectly good when it has died in the bottle. The > cure for > that problem would be to make smaller amounts every month, but Kodak > discontinued the small size packaging. Which brings me to the > Neopan 400 > question...what is the best developer to use for Neopan 400? I > don't like to > use the Ilford liquid developers as they don't seem very reliable > (like > XTOL, I cannot determine if they have died in the bottle on the way > over the > pond). > > Jeffery Smith > New Orleans, LA > http://www.400tx.com > http://400tx.blogspot.com/ > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of > Marc > James Small > Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 5:45 PM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: RE: [Leica] Has this ever happened to one of you? > > > At 06:17 PM 12/3/2006, Jeffery Smith wrote: >> The offending liquid was a sample of Arista Premium Developer from >> Freestyle. I had no D76 on hand and tried it on some Neopan 400. I >> guess >> this is why nobody I know uses Arista Premium Developer. :-0 > > Jeffery > > I always keep the raw chemicals for D-76 on > hand. This stuff lasts forever and is quite > inexpensive so, whenever I am caught without any > developer on hand, I can fall back on home-made > D-76. (Kodak blew a marketing opportunity this > year, as 2006 marks the 80th anniversary of > D-76. But then AGFA failed to do much with > Rodinal when it turned 100 15 years ago. And > almost no one has noted that 2006 is the 250th > birthday of Voigtl?nder, albeit the company > really ceased as an independent entity when it > was merged with Zeiss Ikon in 1966 (the 210th > birthyear!), then passed on to Rollei in 2003, > gutted by them, with the brand names but nothing > else later passing to the company which licenses these to Cosina.) > > I like XTOL but find it almost impossible to find > locally. There is a home-brew recipe for that > but I've never tried it -- you start out with > orange juice and then you ... <he > grins>. Someday, I'll try out the home-brew > recipe to see what happens. Rodinal also lasts a > LONG time so long as it is in glass bottles and > not in plastic: I have some Rodinal which must > be 40 years old or older but which keeps on working. > > Marc > > > msmall@aya.yale.edu > Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information