Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As for xtol, I just pay more and get the one litre size. That way I always mix up fresh developer. I do this with E6 as well. Agfa makes an E6 kit in 500ml size. The per roll cost is about the same as a one gallon Kodak kit, but you always are sure you have fresh chemicals. In E6, the developer usually goes off quickly and you end up with dark slides. Regards, Robert At 09:15 AM 5/23/99 -0700, you wrote: >Tina Manley wrote: >> >> At 04:22 PM 5/6/99 -0700, you wrote: >> >My first batch of Xtol is now washing. >> >Mark :-) Rabiner >> >It works! >> >> Mark - >> >> Watch the expiration on that Xtol! I had read that it sometimes suddenly >> expires with no warning but I'd never had any problems and I've been using >> it since it first came out. I had a little bit left of a gallon that >> shouldn't have expired until September so I used it for six rolls of Tri-X >> that I took in London and Chartres last week. It had expired!! Very >> faint negatives that I tried intensifying with no luck. Made me sick! >> Next time I'll test it or toss it! >> >> Leically, >> >> Tina Manley, ASMP >> http://www.tinamanley.com/ > >My 5 liters went into 5 brown glass laboratory bottles which add a new >look to my darkroom. I made nifty labels for them with a label maker. I >have read the horror stories of almost clear film on news groups which >have shied me away this long. I'm going for it! >Before I run by trip shots I'm going to run some less important stuff >first and make sure my time is right and the developer hasn't croaked in >the night. >Mark Rabiner > > > >