Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 1/21/02 1:36 AM, Marc Attinasi at marc@attinasi.org wrote: > Thanks to everybody that made suggestions and assessments for me. I > have come to the conclusion that I simply underdeveloped. > > I had a roll of Neopan 100 ACROS that I shot a couple of days ago and > decided to try that, but at 1:1 instead or 1:3. Unfortunately, it is > cold tonight so room temp is only 66 deg F - I picked 21 minutes as a > starting point. The results look very nice - slightly overdeveloped > this time, but very close to the density range I am used to seeing in my > negatives - and a range I know I can print. I'll try the TMAX for > longer next time and see what I get - 13.5 minutes probably should have > been 17... >>> Just out of the darkroom where I processed two rolls of TMAX 400 in XTOL >>> 1:3 and the results are surprising. Having never used XTOL I did not >>> know what to expect. I used dev times from the Massive Development >>> Chart - 15 minutes for the roll shot at 800 and 13.5 for the one shot at >>> 400 - 70deg, agitation every minute by hand. >>> >>> The negs look a little thin, and much flatter than I expected from that >>> film, especialy the pushed roll. >>> >>> Is this normal XTOL behavior, or is something wrong with my times / >>> technique / camera / expectations? Well I'm glad you had success but you changed so many variables how do you really know that you just under developed??? I'm still interested to see if more development will help a push processed roll in xtol... - -- John Chicago, IL http://SlideOne.com ==================== - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html