Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/10

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Subject: [Leica] Chalk and ...Presoak
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 22:44:38 -0700

Roy Zartarian wrote:
> With regard to the presoak, all I can say is that the step was one of the recommendations I took away with me from the seminar. It is for b&w, not E6. I recall reading that either Jobo or Kodak now
>snip

I learned to develop E6 or maybe it was (the previous) E4 in the late
'70s. There is a presoak. I then started doing this to my black I white
which I had been doing since the mid '60s. With the TMax and it seems
all new Kodak developers for a decade or two Kodak tells you not to
presoak. When I listen to them I have problems regardless of Developer.
Now when I try a new developer and they say don't presoak, I ignore
them. I'm pretty committed to presoaking. If the water changed I would
reconsider. The use of distilled water might get me to try not
presoaking. I'm a presoak kink of guy! But so for I just do it for a
minute, not five.
Mark