Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]mark, > From: Mark Rabiner <mark@markrabiner.com> > > If you cant [obtain higher densities throught loinger development with > dilute developer] do that then stronger dilutions (less water) is indicated. you'd agree that you could also maintain the (1+3) dilution and increase the total available volume of developer? another alternative that might theoretically work is to develop in fresh dilute developer for some fraction of the total time (perhaps a third) then at the next agitation inverval to replace with fresh dilute developer for the remainder of the developing time. hence you could avoid developer exhaustion, while maintaining small working volume solution. never tried it. but if i were to regularly develop more than 2-3 rolls at a time, maybe it would help out. - -rei - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html