Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Johnny Deadman wrote: > > > You guys are all nuts!!! :) > > Maybe, but beside the point... > > > I'm a big fan of f11; point and shoot. In my Rollei 35 and M6 bodies both > there > > is Delta 3200 which I shoot at 1600 Xtol 1:3 12 minutes 70 degrees blend every > > minute for 5 or ten seconds. > > With a yellow green filter my effective ASA is 800 but that will come off hand > > held in low light. > > Okay, I JUST about buy D3200 at 1600 in Xtol! But I still think the grain is > smushy. And at 1:3 you can only put 2 films in a 1l tank. But hey.] We've run through this one a bit before but: I'm filling up metal tanks with reels of film, a one liter tank with 4 rolls or a 2 liter tank with 8 rolls. I'm resisting the urge to load my film back to back as I've done with other developers over the decades as I'm less prolific now but I have done some of this with Xtol exceeding its supposed limits by quite a margin but compenated enought to avoid ruining 16 rolls of film at a time think god. In a few instances they were just a tad thin. The reason I know I have not hit the maximum the solution can handle is that if I give it more time is gets denser. So the stuff is still active. I hate to take what Silva Z is saying into question or yours either Johnny but I think different films make the developer expire at different rates and so far I'm OK with the TriX I had been using and the Delta 400/3200 I am now using. Mark Rabiner