Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I've had white spots on my film all the $#@@ time and I thought it was dust that what doing me in. I also use X-tol and have just tried D76 after having gone through the whole water etc change thing. I'll let you know how my experience turns out. Bas - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerry Walden" <gwpics@aol.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 10:47 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] white spots on Tri X and Xtol > 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 > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html