Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] B&W film: developing
From: Ruralmopics@aol.com
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 15:09:54 EDT

In a message dated 10/11/99 12:11:26 PM, mrabiner@concentric.net writes:

>With all due respect to the testing facilities and results of Kodak and
>some of
>our more illustrious members I cant see myself agitating my film every
>30
>seconds. Too much activity, too much noise, doesn't feel right to me. I
>can go
>along with just about everything else in this new fanged T Max technology,
>higher developer temperatures, no stop bath but I ain't going to shake
>rattle
>and roll through the whole thing. 10 seconds per minute seems humane to
>me in
>this car alarm world. :)

That's all I do -- about four inversions each minute. I also cut my time 
(with T-Max developer) from six and a half minutes to six. T-Max is a great 
film -- just don't overdevelop it.

Bob (Oh yeah, I remember Tri-X) McEowen