Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]><Snip> > > F Xtol 1:3 and be there! > > Okay, this is embarrassing -- akin to the English professor, in David > Lodge's novel, admitting to never having read Hamlet -- but I've really > never processed a roll of black and white film, not since I was about ten ><Snip> ilm: all the photography schools use it, therefor it's a > standard. Should I *start out* with X-tol? Am I going to have to climb the > learning curve all over again, once I get used to D-76, and switch? > > I'm basically a Tri-X kind of guy, who shoots the occasional roll of TMZ... > > > sheepishly yours, > > Douglas Cooper Not such a weird cultish thing Douglas! Xtol has gotten to be the default developer in most pro labs. If you brought you film into a place like that to have it run and a contact sheet made odds are that's what they'd run it in. Ahough it might very probably be run in Xtol straight which they replenish with Xtol. Get ready for a "sharper" image which is at the same time has much better grain... as in less of it and a nice tight regular grain pattern :IF you ever see it. Mark Rabiner Portland, Oregon USA http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/