Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Apr 28, 2004, at 6:32 PM, Rei Shinozuka wrote: > i keep mine in a tank with a floating lid and have gotten 6 months > out of it. similarly i do a clip test before development in light of > all the war stories that used to circulate the internet. > > -rei I use one liter glass brown bottles with tight lids and I've likewise gotten a year out of the last bottles. I got a lot less before I switched to glass bottles. The truth is that, using XTOL at 1:1 I have a hard time using up a five-liter batch in a year. It is nominally 50 rolls at 100ml of stock per roll. When I factor in some other B&W developers that I use in some circumstances plus all the color, I find that I'm mixing up only about one batch a year. At about 8 bucks per five liter pack of XTOL, it has to be about the cheapest component of the whole system. Rolfe -- Rolfe Tessem | Lucky Duck Productions, Inc. rolfe@ldp.com | 96 Morton Street (212) 463-0029 | New York, NY 10014