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: What is your time for TMAX 400? I had used XTOL with TMAX and found the negatives thin, but still printed well. I used to always shoot Tri-X and with those negatives, you used the lay them on a sheet of newspaper to see if they were the proper density method. It doesn't seem that way with any of the three TMAX films I have tried. I just bought a five liter kit of Xtol and will give it a try tonight on some TMAX. I was in my darkroom this morning and realized I had hundreds of bottles from the AGFA E6 process I use. It is a kit that comes in 150ml plastic bottles to make up the solutions. I will have no problem finding 33 for the 5 liters. BTW, the 5 liter kit was $14 CAD or about $10 USD. Not a lot of money to worry about wasting a bit in the process. If I only need 100ml for the process, using the extra fifty mil, really doesn't bring up the cost much. If I use 100ml per roll it is only twenty cents per roll. If I waste some and average 150ml a roll, it is only thrity three cents a roll. I guess no matter how you use it, the idea is to be consistent and stick to a time and dilution that works for you. I am off to the darkroom to mix some Xtol. Regards, Robert At 09:26 AM 1/5/2002 -0800, Mark Rabiner wrote: >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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html