Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Try ss reels in Jobo tanks with Jobo adaptor. Steven > From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net> > Organization: Mark Rabiner Productions > Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 18:02:35 -0800 > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Re: Re: Xtol dilution > > Gaifana@aol.com wrote: >> >> 290 ml (10 oz) per. And they're a lot easier to use, especially with the >> larger-size films. They're pretty much the norm now. And by the way, why use >> Xtol if you can use standing Rodinal? Are you push processing? >> >> In a message dated 12/9/99 7:58:56 PM, jimbrick@photoaccess.com writes: >> >> << I don't know the capacity of the plastic Patterson or Jobo tanks... >> perhaps >> they hold more solution per reel than SS tanks. >> >> Jim >> >> At 07:03 PM 12/9/99 -0500, Jeff Moore wrote: >>> >>> Of course. And you said Xtol wasn't formulated with them in mind; >>> hence my question. I was wondering if Kids Today use some kind of >>> weird higher-volume plastic lashup like those Paterson [sp?] things I >>> tried briefly some years ago and hated. >> > A reason to use Xtol instead of Rodinol is for the grain; the lack of. > It's hard to resist Rodinal for its extreme sharpness and glow but for it's > extreme grain. > Xtol gives you the edge of Rodinol but with excellent fine grain which doesn't > become part of the statement of the picture itself. Thus 400 films look like > the > results of the 100 or slower films I'm used to getting with Rodinol. It's a > nice > present for the new millennium for me. > Mark Rabiner > As far as tanks go I think the Jobo use less chemical then metal tanks and > Patterson plastic tanks use more. > Tanks for the memory.