Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] XTOL Mixing
From: "Mike Durling" <durling@widomaker.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 09:55:08 -0500
References: <3.0.2.32.20020217163501.01399e48@roanoke.infi.net> <3.0.6.32.20020202125251.00936960@popd.ix.netcom.com> <DFED44A8-181B-11D6-876C-003065D4DE46@sohogurus.net> <4.3.1.1.20020202085841.00c36550@pop3.norton.antivirus> <3.0.2.32.20020217205345.014ef720@roanoke.infi.net>

Marc, you and others may be interested in this article
http://unblinkingeye.com/Articles/VitC/vitc.html that describes the use of
vitamin-c developers containing, mostly, easy to obtain chemicals.

That site http://unblinkingeye.com/ has a lot of interesting articles on odd
and forgotten darkroom practices.

Mike D

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc James Small" <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] XTOL Mixing


At 07:55 PM 2/17/02 -0400, Robert G. Stevens wrote:
>Up here in Canada Xtol cost $14 CAD ($8.75 USD) for five litres.  It seems
>pretty cheap and unless your hobby is photographic chemistry, it doesn't
>look like their would be much savings in mixing it yourself.

Down here in the US, XTOL is not generally available outside of larger
cities, as most photo stores refuse to carry it.  Thus, the interest in
developing a self-mixing formula.

Marc

msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +276/343-7315
Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir!

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