Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You have to use the 5 liter pack. The 1 liter packs were fraught with problems. Supposedly fixed, but who knows how many old 1 liter packs are floating around??? Go with five and stay alive... (Kodak motto) JB At 04:34 PM 2/22/01 -0800, 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. > >Mark: Do you follow Kodak's recommendations on this? >Or just pack the tank full of reels, which means >about 63ml of solution per roll? (I'm assuming a tank >that takes about 250ml per roll, meaning 62.5ml of XTOL >with 187.5ml water for each roll.) > >Apologies to female LUGgers, but it takes balls of brass >to do it the latter way. Maybe this works if you extend >development time? > >-A-L