Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Richard Edwards wrote: > > I've done only 1+1 so far with XTOL. Only complaint > is batch-to-batch inconsistency, which has stopped > now that I mix with distilled water, > and shelf life, which I solve by shooting more film and > guzzling all the XTOL at one go. > > If I go 1+3, then it's 300ml XTOL + 900ml water, > for a grand total of 3 rolls in a 5-roll tank. Here > I'm following Kodak's recommendations to use at > least 100ml of solution per roll. Ignore that! I have for years. The main inventor or Xtol explained that that is no big deal. If increasing time makes for a denser neg with no diachronic fog then you are not developing with exhausted developer in your last part of developing. So you are doing ok I'll run 4 rolls in a liter of developer at 1:3 That's 62.5 per roll instead of 100. NOPROBLEMO! at least with Tri x, delta 100 and 400, Neopan 500 and 1600. But Neopan 3200 i got fog so i go 1:1 on that. I only use that in 120 rollfilm. > > ><Snip> mark R