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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] B&W film: developing
From: "Robert G. Stevens" <robsteve@hfx.andara.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 18:09:49 -0300

Mark:

Kodak has always had this agitate every thirty second processing step for
most of its developers as long as I can remember (early 1970's).  Ilford
and Rodinal were the ten seconds every minute approach.

Regards,

Robert

At 11:08 AM 10/11/99 -0700, you wrote:
>YOU GUYS!!!!
>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. :)
>Mark Rabiner
>
>