Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Thanks again, LUG help to the rescue w/HP5+
From: Jiri_Dvorak@idx.com
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 13:07:31 -0700

>Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 12:03:42 -0400
>From: Aaron Ruby <aruby@rci.rutgers.edu>
>Subject: [Leica] Thanks again, LUG help to the rescue w/HP5+
>
>Now, at the risk of being a pest, I'd like to ask if anyone has an
>estimate of how much more development is necessary to compensate for
>diluting XTOL to 1+1. Some LUGers mentioned they do this. The obvious
>benefit is economy. What are the costs? For those who use XTOL
>undiluted, do you use it more than once?

Aaron,

you can reuse undiluted developer, but you have to increase the time. I
prefer to use diluted developer. Look at this table for the times with
diluted developer:
http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professional/support/techPubs/j109/j109Table
sRollFilms1b.shtml#02


Jiri D.