Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/03

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Subject: Re: [Leica] experiments in the limits of XTol
From: Rei Shinozuka <shino@ubspw.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 08:55:13 -0500 (EST)

wow.  i would have thought you'd get increased fog maybe, but completely,
perfectly clear even to the point of frame numbers?

sure you weren't developing in rapid fixer 1+3 at 70 degrees for 12 minutes?

:-)

- -rei


> From: Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> 
> Well, I now know that if you buy a roll of TMAX 3200 in 1995, expose it in 
> 1997, and then in 2002 develop in in 1:3 XTol at 70 degrees for 12 minutes, 
> and fix it properly, it comes out completely blank; not even the frame 
> numbers or Kodak annoations are visible.
> 
> A roll of less-antique film in the same tank came out fine. 
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