Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Don Dory wrote: > > Call me anal, but yes, I do have two hewes reels in a 4 reel tank using Xtol > at 1:3. But that is why I picked up the 7 reel tank, in there I can run 4 > reels at a time. Drain times are not a problem when development runs 14 > minutes. > > Just doing my part to entertain the B&W Guru > > Don Dory > dorysrus@mindspring.com > Some people are like that. The will come back from a vacaion with 14 rolls of film and run 2 a night for a week. "What's the rush?" They'll say. In my case i'll shoot 10 rolls in 3 hours like in that nude shoot and then i'll run the film so i can have my stack of contacts done of the whole shoot in the morning. Naturally i've had clinets who've needed this turnaround. I have 2 2 liter 8 reel tanks. So i can run 16 rolls at the same time. I pour one tank one minute behind the next. And a keep stored a gallon of stop bath in a jug and Rapid fix 1 and 2 in their gallong jugs. So i'm running 16 rolls of film at a time. each roll gets 250mls of liquid as they are metal tanks. Before Xtol i'd commenly put two rolls on one reel back to back, i learned this from Bill Peirce. So i used to be able to run 32 rolls at a time in Rodinal or Rabinal. On exhastion issues i just fired this some of these thoughts to Frank: My time for Neopan 1600 is 12 minutes in Xtol 1:3. 4 reels in a one liter 4 reel metal tank but if i ran 1 or 2 rolls of Neopan 1600 in that one liter 4 reel tank I'll get a bit more density. So i run it at 11 or 10 mines instead. I don't call that a failed system. But it is a system working at near exhaustion. Just as importantly if i run my 4 reels in a one liter 4 reel tank at not 12 but 13 or 14 minutes... I pick up more density and contrast. To me that is certainly a working system. which has worked for me for 2.5 years. However i find i cant do this with Delta 3200. Giving it more time does not increase contrast or density. It just makes it more GREY. diachronic fog? It had petered out. Exhausted. so i run that stuff at 1:1 and have no problems. I'd do the same if i ever shot TMX I think. Kodak took 1:3 out of it's recommendations when people had trouble with TMX. They said "Gee maybe they'll have problems with other films too! We better cover our buts!" 1:3 used to be in the literature. Now it's not. It was probably their marketing people who did it because they fired all their B&W lab people. Mark - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html