Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I suspect that almost nobody reads every message on the LUG. Heck, I went 3 years without reading any of them. These days I think I read about half of the messages, but it varies. So last October my mind was elsewhere and I didn't think I was going to be using XTol so I missed seeing the explanation that Mark Rabiner had made about how he mixes and uses XTol. Just last night I finally understood what he was saying, and I have to confess that this is one of the neatest things I've learned from the LUG in years. (Recall that I see myself as being more of a darkroom expert and printmaking expert than being a great photographer). Mark, I want to thank you and congratulate you both for figuring this out and for implementing it in a way that is easy for us non-professionals to copy. What I'm trying to accomplish is the design of a workflow for my home darkroom that will let me, without any more advance planning than turning on the electric water heater, develop and proof and scan some film in a single burst of energy. The workflow that I've used for 35 years requires advance planning with respect to developer inventory, and at least two intervals of available time to get prints out of a roll of film. (If you didn't read these messages either, and you use XTol or, like me, are starting to use XTol, use the LUG Search on keywords "xtol brown bottles 250" and you will find several messages on this topic. Now I just need to get some of these 250ml bottles. Does anybody have a recommended vendor? Does anybody actually know enough chemistry to know whether a blue bottle will have the same preservative value as a brown bottle? The Kodak web site is silent on this. Brian Reid - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html