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Subject: Re: [Leica] OT - B&W negative developing info. in general
From: Christer Almqvist <chris@almqvist.net>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 16:09:17 +0200
References: <D7B7C871-CC55-11D7-AC64-003065D6E648@umich.edu> <p05100300bb5ea1170d71@[193.250.8.55]> <3F3900C0.B6B79154@rabinergroup.com>

>  ><Snip>
>>
>>  People who have had Xtol failures say the images on the film are very
>>  weak, even the frame numbers are difficult to see. I must admit
>>  something similar happened to me a few days ago. Not only that there
>>  was nothing on the film, the film reels were completely empty.
>>  Luckily enough I had not tried to load another two films into the
>  > tank I believed empty.
>
>  > Rgds
>>  Chris
>>
>HI Chris tell us more about your Xtol one roll failure the same year old
>soup that did OK last week with your major run?

Mark;

it was a bit embarrassing, so perhaps I did not make myself quite 
clear, or you read too fast..

Anyway I have no real darkroom out here in the sticks on the French 
coast, but I like to develop my films here on a current basis to make 
sure everything is fine for later printing when I go back to Hamburg. 
When I am here I usually put the film onto the reels of my Jobo tank 
some time after midnight when everything here is one big darkroom. 
Then  I develop the next morning when the temperature is at its lowest

And did I say I have several identical tanks?

So I grabbed the first tank that i saw in the morning. (More 
explanations needed??? If yes, then read on!) I then completed the 
normal developing procedure with my Xtol 1+1, stop bath and hypo. And 
as I said, when I took the reels out of the tank,  there was not even 
any films on the reels. Not only no underdeveloped negatives, but no 
negatives at all. Empty reels. The ultimate Xtol failure!

And did I say I have several identical tanks? So I developed the next 
one, which I earlier presumed empty. It was not. The ultimate Xtol 
recovery. Correctly developed negatives on full reels

Regards
Chris
Senior mom, ops,  senior member LUG



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In reply to: Message from Christer Almqvist <chris@almqvist.net> (Re: [Leica] OT - B&W negative developing info. in general)
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