Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks to everybody that made suggestions and assessments for me. I have come to the conclusion that I simply underdeveloped. I had a roll of Neopan 100 ACROS that I shot a couple of days ago and decided to try that, but at 1:1 instead or 1:3. Unfortunately, it is cold tonight so room temp is only 66 deg F - I picked 21 minutes as a starting point. The results look very nice - slightly overdeveloped this time, but very close to the density range I am used to seeing in my negatives - and a range I know I can print. I'll try the TMAX for longer next time and see what I get - 13.5 minutes probably should have been 17... Cheers! - - marc ps. I've been trying and experimenting and generally mucking about with b&w films and developers for about 20 years now. I was not asking for a 'fix' to my development issue, just a sanity check and maybe an idea or two to help 'focus' the experiment. Nathan Wajsman wrote: >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 > - -- *** Marc Attinasi *** * mailto: marc@attinasi.org * * http://www.attinasi.org * - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html