Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Christer Almqvist wrote: > ><snip> > BTW one good reason to use Xtol is that it is environment friendly. There > is a similar developer for prints, the Agfa Neutol PLUS which I have been > using for the last year and since then I use my fingers for pulling the > prints out of the developer><snip> It warns in our Anshell/troop book that Vitamin C aint the non-poison it's cracked up to be Linus Pauling put up to question and you should not nessasarly feel like you can trust dipping your fingers in it any more than other developers. Certainly licking your fingers dry might be ill advised. I'm looking forward to trying out Agfa Neutol PLUS so I can run my prints in similar stuff that has radicalized my Negs. But in my deep recesses I'm remembering using some Agfa stuff out of a bottle and having one of those experices when you go down to your darkroom the next morning and you find little surprises on you prints. Dark marks in this case. Staining that occurred after a dozen prints went though the tray and the stuff was less than fresh. I might have been old Neutol without the plus and without the vitamin C. Mark Rabiner