Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark Rabiner wrote: > I think the xtol bug might be heat, I just read a thing on that. It has > to be not mixed up too warm or stored too warm. !!!!?? Thanks for the tip. I don't think that was a problem though - the ambient room temperature here rarely exceeds the recommended maximum mixing temperature of 28 degrees C and it certainly didn't when I ran the tests. There has been a lot of chatter on rec.photo.films+labs and rec.photo.darkroom about problems with XTOL ranging to complete development failure for a variety of reasons; I know from a number of reliable, independent sources that Kodak recalled a batch of one litre packs due to moisture problems with Part A which may explain this (or perhaps only complicate things further) - apparently, the trick here is to discard the developer if Part A is not in dry, loose condition.