Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/06/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Its been years since I used Xtol. I never really liked the tonality as much as D-76, though Xtol does give finer grain. I got best results diluted 1+1. Be careful with higher dilutions. Kodak, when it first came out, listed times for 1+2 and 1+3 dilutions. A lot of photographers got severely underdeveloped negs with those dilutions, using Kodak?s times. Turns out, Xtol cannot stand being diluted that much unless you develop the film in a much larger tank than you normally need. I think there had to be 200ml of stock in the diluted developer for each roll, so for 1+3 developing, you could do only one roll in a 32ox tank that could hold four rolls! Kodak published the minimum stock quantity needed but a lot of people ignored it and complained, so they just stopped publishing the times for the higher dilutions! I actually have a copy in PDF format of the original Xtol info booklet, but the times would be off for Kodak films now since Kodak reformulated Tri-X and the Tmax films since then. They did publish times for Ilford films, which might still work if you?re interested in seeing it. -- Chris Crawford Fine Art Photography Fort Wayne, Indiana 260-437-8990 http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 Become a fan on Facebook On 6/15/17, 5:15 AM, "LUG on behalf of lluisripollphotography" <lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf of lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote: >I don?t have a large experience with Xtol, I?ve used for years ID11/D76. >I?ve developed my two last films of Bergger Pancro 400 in Xtol Stock at >the recomended time, but I?m unhappy with the results. I?ve used it in >stock to get the shortest developing time and minimize the grain effect. > >I would like hear your experiences with Xtol, I mainly use FP4 and HP5. > >Thanks in advance > >Lluis > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information