Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/03

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Subject: [Leica] Has this ever happened to one of you?
From: reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)
Date: Sun Dec 3 17:52:49 2006
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> I've never had XTOL go bad on me.

Whereas my constant losing battle with XTOL was the primary reason I 
abandoned wet processing for digital. I was obsessively precise with mixing 
it with distilled water, storing it in glass bottles that had no trapped 
air, and all that. But about half of the rolls of film I developed with XTOL 
were ruined, and after losing 20 or 30 rolls in a year to shit developer, I 
went out and bought a digital camera and have not turned on the water in my 
darkroom since.

Now I have a Photoshop filter that can fool all of you into thinking that 
something was shot with Tri-X and developed in XTOL.
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