Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 3 Nov 2000, Mike Johnston wrote, at least in part: > Incidentally, I usually write dilutions with a "+" because some > people get confused by the colon--they might think 1:3 means "one > part developer out of a total of 3 parts" (i.e., 1:2) rather than > "one part developer to three parts water." The plus sign simply > makes it more unlikely that people will make mistakes. No, no, don't do that! Anyone who messes in the darkroom learns, within the first day or so, what the colon means and the proper interpretation. What you're doing is introducing the "Johnston Convention" which will only confuse the established darkroom worker (which most on this list likely are). Your method still presupposes that the worker know which end of the ratio water in on. - -- Roger Mailto:roger@beamon.org