Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > ------------- > site: http://www.pix-that-stimulate.com > expo: http://www.orients-unis.net > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- Gerry Walden LRPS www.gwpics.com +44 23 8046 3076 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html