Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/16

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Subject: Re: [Leica] white spots on Tri X and Xtol
From: "Gerry Walden" <gwpics@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 21:47:40 +0100
References: <r02000100-1026-BD22B251E88511D79BD60003936C5BDE@[10.0.1.3]>

The common factor is Xtol. It is why some of us (myself included) moved 
away from it a long time ago! I simply found it an unreliable developer 
that was throwing up various 'mysterious' problems.

Gerry

Tarek Charara wrote:

 > > I need some help on the following. Recently I have been getting very
 > > small spots on my Tri X ( the new one ) developed in Xtol 1:3
 > >
 > > Using developer from the same container, Delta 100 was fine. I kept the
 > > processing technique as similar as I could in both cases , and it's the
 > > same as what I have been doing all this while without problems.
 > >
 > > Could it be bubbles resulting in uneven development?
 > >
 > > Rgds
 > > Roland
 > > Singapore
 >
 > Roland,
 >
 > I'm happy to see that I'm not the only one having this problem. I have
 > the same problem with TMZ. I changed water (using distilled water
 > only), stop bath (tried: water, acetic acid...), different fixing
 > baths... nothing changed. Even when changing XTol batches.
 >
 > Maybe we could find a common thing in our dev. methods that could lead
 > us to the origin of this ugly phenomenon...
 >
 > Tarek
 >
 > Tarek Charara
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Replies: Reply from "Bas" <bas@baswip.com> (Re: [Leica] white spots on Tri X and Xtol)
In reply to: Message from Tarek Charara <tarek.charara@pix-that-stimulate.com> (Re: [Leica] white spots on Tri X and Xtol)