Re: [Leica] Mark Rabiner's XTol tricks

["Michael Volow" <mvolo@duke.edu>]

My source for non-permeable 250cc brown bottles is to buy several small
bottles of hydrogen peroxide at the drug store. About 75 cents if I remember
correctly. I empty out the hydrogen peroxide, rinse the bottles well, and
pour in XTol. However, I haven't tested the stored developer yet. Will let
folks know when I do.
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From: "Brian Reid" <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 10:20 PM
Subject: [Leica] Mark Rabiner's XTol tricks


> 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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