Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]One look at Mark's negatives and prints will assure anyone that Mark knows exactly what he is doing. And does it magnificently. So, as you imply, it might be a personal thing. But Mark sure is zeroed in on the correct method. Jim At 09:55 PM 1/4/2002 -0500, Rei Shinozuka wrote: >mark, to me and many LUGers, you are the evangelist of xtol. > >but the kodak document on their website: J-109 September 2000 (unless >superceded) does not qualify the 100ml rule for tmax: > > Minimum Solution Volume. The volume of diluted KODAK XTOL Developer ><snip> > >on the subject of developer exhaustion, Anchell goes even further: > > Although it is true, as Kodak claims, that 100ml of _undiluted_ D-76 > is sufficient to develop 8x10 inches of fim, it may not always be ><snip> > >clearly it's not a black and white issue (pun intended). >i find the kodak 100ml recommendation something i can live with; >usually i use 125ml. but in the back of my mind, i also hear >steve anchell's admonition that 250ml might give different (better?) >results. > >-rei > > > > From: Mark Rabiner <mark@markrabiner.com> > > > > No I'm doing 4 rolls in a one lliter tank. > > each roll gets 250 mls of liquid which is at 1:3 > > so each roll is getting 62.5 of Xtol. > > > > below the minimum daily requments asked for by kodak by 37.5 mls! > > > > Kodak states that this is only and issue with Tmax 100. > > > > I find it also in issue with Delta 3200. So i go 1:1 on that. > > > > But all the other films i've used in Xtol Works great at 1:3. >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html