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Subject: Re: [Leica] xtol times for acros
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@markrabiner.com>
Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 19:00:00 -0700
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Daniel
17 minutes at 70 degrees for but my 35mm and 120.
I agitate every minute and do a presoak of a few minutes so factor all
that into the way you do things.

Trouble with a floating lid arrangement is if the whole deal were thin
plastic I'd be wary of it. They tend to be.

The advantages to all the small bottles besides their long lastingness
is their ease of use.

Mine are one shots in effect.
To not have to measure is a real boom in the darkroom.
Makes you want to run down there (mines in my basement) and run some
film at a moments notice.

I think to not have to measure but just dump one thing into another aids
this whole process.

The minus to all the bottles is you have to buy them for 20 or 40 bucks.

And fill them with Xtol from your 5 liter packet you mix up on a bucket.

This could take a whole 5 minutes but i think less.


Then you are set up for months to a year unless you shoot a whole lot.

Lets see…
you get 20 liters of working solution from a five liter packet if you go 1:3.
4 reels in each one liter tank.
That's 80 rolls of film.

That's a roll every 4.5 days for a whole year! Plus the soup to make it in!
What a ya want!? Egg in yer BEER?



Mark Rabiner
Portland, Oregon USA
http://www.markrabiner.com
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