Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think Portland Water is some of the best you'll get in a city - I don't know. I drink a lot of exotic bottled waters but i also drink plenty right out of the tap. In the basement where my darkroom is I have large filters on my cold and hot water lines running into may darkroom. So the water down there is a bit more special than the kind upstairs I drink and cook with. It's possible that if I'd not be filtering my darkroom water I'd be getting a variety of darkroom gremlins including some of the ones you get with Xtol. But I think the filters make our good water just a little bit better. I've heard that for people making "serious darkrooms" a set of filters like that are certainly par for the course. Making a darkroom? Go get your filters. Where there's worse water in other cities you can put higher priced finer filters in the same casings which i by the way got from Calumet. ... such stuff i tend to get from Calumet. I got my regulator from those guys. So I'm got running my Xtol in raw sewage guys! I'm using cleaner than average Portland water. (Do i want to live in a City where i cant drink the water?). And I've got some serious filtration going on. Mark Rabiner And i presoak. Portland, Oregon USA http://www.markrabiner.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html