Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] B&W film: Ilford vs. TMax
From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <ramarren@bayarea.net>
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 23:31:00 -0700
 
>TMax was very discouraging for me.  I gave it a big effort but perhaps I 
>gave up too soon.  Xtol is the only Kodak product that I use.

I had fairly lousy results with TMax 100 and TMax 400 until I read the 
datasheet carefully and noted that Kodak recommended about 3x my normal 
agitation in processing. I process normally in XTOL 1:1, stepped up my 
agitation to a vigorous initial agitation for 15 seconds and 5seconds of 
vigorous inversions every 30 seconds. Now my TMax 100 and TMax 400 
results are superb.

Godfrey