Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/12/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm not sure where Feli is but, down here in the subtropics, the big challenge is finding water that is cold enough to use. In the summer, it is common to get water out of the tap that is 85F-90F. As a result, I've started refrigerating water to drop the developer temperature to 68F. I tried 75F many times, and it just doesn't seem to be what gives the best results. Jeffery At 04:15 PM 12/01/2005, you wrote: >On 12/1/05 7:55 AM, "Wade Heninger" <lists@heninger.org> typed: > > >>> The average temperature of your water is of no interest at all. > >>> What is of interest is the termperature of your developer when you > >>> develop film. > > > > Why not just forgo all this averaging stuff and just use water baths to > > get > > that developer/water combo to 68 before pouring it into the tank. > > > > Pour in developer, pour in tap water measured as close to 68 as > you can, and > > then use cold/hot water bath to bring the temp up/down with the > > thermometer > > in the mixture. Takes a bit of time, but it gives you the actual temp at > > time of insertion. > > > > That is what the rest of us do to control temperature and doing this > > eliminates one variable in solving your problem. > > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > > Wade Heninger > > Heninger Photographik > > http://heninger.org > > > > > > >I remember the first controversy I ever created on the lug was when I told >everybody how if my darkroom was 70 degrees the standing water would be 68. >It was always exactly two degrees under the air ever since my first darkroom >when I was 13. I assumed that this had to be the case with everybody and was >a given. Theorem. Newton. Darkroom Dataguide. >But no. >The whole place went bananas. With our engineers and all. >That was the case and seems still to be now though. If it's 67 then my fix >will be that magic 65 number in which both developers and fix starts conking >out and it's not good. And I'd have to scramble and warm my fix and anything >else, stop up a few degrees into the safe zone. And not be happy. >Ideal for me would be a 72 degree darkroom so my water in there would be 70. >As that's my developing temperature for film and paper. But then at 72 I get >the sweats. And getting too much air moving around a darkroom to counteract >that is a mixed bag. Your breathing too much chemicals sure but the heater >thermostat in my Aristo variable contrast head which keeps the florescent >tubes balanced gets thrown off and has to work in overdrive. So my prints go >into "random" mode. Which is sometimes better than "Mark" mode. > >Mark Rabiner >Photography >Portland Oregon >http://rabinergroup.com/ > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information