Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/04/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina, We have a similar problem with tap-water temperature in Boulder. Can you tell us about some dilution/temperature trade offs. Chris At 03:05 PM 4/1/97 -0500, you wrote: >At 12:08 PM 4/1/97 +0200, you wrote: > > >>Could this person please tell me what does it change to use it at full >strength, or at each of the different dilutions? I find the info that kodak >has on the internet, insufficient. >>>Also, when I use it at full strength(supposedly reusable for an amount of >rolls) and keep it in the common black plastic bottle, when I want to reuse >it for the second time, after some days, it has a grey color, totally >different from the transparent color it had after the first use. Is this >normal? If it is not, I am worried that it could be my chrome M6 dying its >color into the negatives and them to the developer. >> > >Nicholas: I wrote about using Xtol, but I use it with a Jobo processor and >develop six rolls at a time. I dump it after each use. The only reason for >me to change the dilution would be to use a different time or temperature. >Of course, it is cheaper the more you dilute it, but you do have a longer >developing time. Sometime in the summer the water temperature here doesn't >go below 85 degrees so a weaker dilution would come in handy. Xtol seems to >be a versatile developer that works great with black and white film exposed >in Leica cameras :-) (I got Leica in there, too.) Tina > >Images by Tina Manley, ASMP >images@infoave.net ><http://www.photogs.com/manley/index.html> > > >