Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/08/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> My formula for hundreds of rolls of Tmax 100 ... My experience is similar to Stephen Sherman's. I've probably developed 100 rolls of Tmax 100 a year since it first came out. I've tried every developer I can find and I keep coming back to HC-100 dilution B. I get perfect results every time. I process at 70 degrees F and not at 68 because that last 2 degrees is very hard to achieve here in warm sunny California. I follow Kodak's timing instructions exactly but I start the developing timer as I begin to pour the liquid into the tank and I time the dumping of the tank so that I am completely done with emptying it just as the timer clicks off. Sometimes when I am in a hurry to get something developed quickly and I don't have any HC-110/B mixed up I have used Tmax developer, and I always regret it. The tonal range is wrong in a way that is hard to describe.