Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/12/01

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Subject: [Leica] Xtol temperature
From: lists at heninger.org (Wade Heninger)
Date: Thu Dec 1 08:16:35 2005

> I just told you. 68F. Water come out of tap, goes in to beaker with
> 250ml of XTOL
> and immediately gets poured in to the tank. The average temperature
> of this operation
> has been 68F.

But if the XTOL was stored in a cold room, it could be 50 degrees.  If you
mix in tap water at 68, the resulting mixture is going to be cold - nowhere
near 68.

And you'll get underdeveloped negs.

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Wade Heninger
Heninger Photographik
http://heninger.org