Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/14

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Subject: [Leica] OFF-TOPIC: XTOL, Rodinal, and TMZ
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 12:28:13 -0400
 
At 07:30 PM 5/13/98 -0700, Michael Leitheiser wrote:
>Dunno the whole answer, but I use tmz at 1600 in 1:1 xtol a lot and don't
>think there is much grain at all.  TMZ in Rodinal (not too exotic(:  should
>give you all the grain you could possibly wish for.
>

Ah, but for some reason it doesn't.  Try Rodinal:  you will be astounded.
The grain structure is substantially better than with TMZ souped in XTOL,
especially in shadow areas.  

Rodinal is actually an extremely fine-grain developer but, unfortunately,
it lumps the grain together to make that "grain like golfballs" effect we
all know.  It doesn't clump it in TMZ, though.

Marc


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