Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Brian, I think that your hypothesis is correct. I have had similar problems with powder-based developers that are not TOTALLY dissolved. Scanning with a good scanner like the LS4000 only makes things worse. I am now paranoid when mixing XTOL; I use only distilled water, and I warm it up in the microwave to a temperature well above the room temperature that Kodak recommends, to ensure that the powder is well and truly dissolved. Nathan Brian Reid wrote: > I've just dried and scanned my first roll of Neopan 1600 developed in XTol > 1:3, and the result is bizarre and unusable. My best guess as to what went > wrong is that I didn't mix the XTol enough and there were still particles > floating around in it, but, in any event, if you'd be willing to look at > this 200KB image that is a closeup of the scan, and express an opinion as > to what those white things are, I'd be grateful. They are not dust: I > looked at both surfaces of the negative under a microscope with strong > sidelighting, and no dust was visible. (The object in the foreground is the > back end of a seagull, and you are looking at actual pixels as they came > out of the LS4000) > > http://reid.org/brian/images/xtol1.jpg > > that's an ell followed by a one in the filename. > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html