Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc, I am not sure that XTOL 1+3 is the ideal solution for pushing film. Secondly, the Massive Dev. Chart is a compilation of stuff from film data sheets--useful as a starting point but not a substitute for doing your own testing, however informal. Nathan Marc Attinasi wrote: > Just out of the darkroom where I processed two rolls of TMAX 400 in XTOL > 1:3 and the results are surprising. Having never used XTOL I did not > know what to expect. I used dev times from the Massive Development > Chart - 15 minutes for the roll shot at 800 and 13.5 for the one shot at > 400 - 70deg, agitation every minute by hand. > > The negs look a little thin, and much flatter than I expected from that > film, especialy the pushed roll. > > Is this normal XTOL behavior, or is something wrong with my times / > technique / camera / expectations? > > Thanks all, > - marc > > -- > *** Marc Attinasi *** > * mailto: marc@attinasi.org * > * http://www.attinasi.org * > > > -- > 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