Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/12

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Subject: Re: [Leica] XTOL Report
From: Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net>
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 21:54:34 -0400

At 09:20 PM 5/12/98 -0400, you wrote:
>I finally bought some XTOL at the urging of many LUG and Rollei List
>members.  This is an interesting developer.
>
>First, it was released in the US first in a five-litre size and many camera
>stores are unwilling to stock the smaller 1-litre size until they sell out
>of the larger size.  And since the five-litre size is grotesquely
>inconvenient for an American user (it comes out to about 1 gallon, 1 quart,
>and slightly more than a cup), US purchasers avoid this size like the
>plague.  (I was sold a five-litre size by my local camera store at the
>1-litre price just to unload it:  they haven't sold ANY of the five-litre
>size!)  This may be one of Kodak's dumbest marketing ploys.

>Marc
>


Marc -

I've been ordering mine from B&H.  The litre size is $3.29 and the 5 litre
is $7.29.  Quite a savings in the larger size and since it has a shelf life
of over a year, mixed, it really pays to get the larger size. I use so
much, I never even thought about the litre size.  I really like this
developer!   Tina


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