[Leica] Re: Mark Rabiner's XTol tricks - bottles

[Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>]

Bottles... go here:

http://www.coleparmer.com/catalog/product_view.asp?pfx=U&sku=0602650&cat=1&sel=0602650

I buy from these folks all of the time. They are great to deal with.

Or to www.coleparmer.com and type in U-06026-50 in the search field.

Jim


At 07:20 PM 1/2/2002 -0800, Brian Reid wrote:
>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

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