Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Daniel Ridings wrote: > > 77 ... too hot to process in, too cold to swim in :) Thanks Doug. > > Daniel > ><Snip> I drop an ice cube in my negative developer which of course is Xtol 1:3 but was others in the deep past. I stir until it hits 70 which is my developing temperature ala Ilford. With paper developer Dektol loves being raised in temperatures to 75 or 78 or 9. Which reminds me i had one darkroom here in Portland where i would get there at 5 or 6 AM and mix up chemicals and take all my cloths off. I'd print naked, sometimes with naked wife and by 1 or 2 p.m. we were laughing deliriously as we looked like we just got out of the bath or shower. How hot my chemistry got I'll never know or knew and forgot. How many brain cells gone i don't know. Maybe you CAN print at 100 degrees! Both your chemistry and YOU! Don't use LPD or any Phenidone paper developers on hot days where you tray would climb near 75. Phenidone completely looses it when warmed. All contrast and blacks gone. Not so Metol Hydroquinone (MQ) Dektol and other MQ's. It's the Hydroquinoe you see. REALLY kicks in those blacks when you jack up the temperature of the tray. Or develop it LONGER. (Same thing like for 5 mintues) Mark Rabiner Portland, Oregon USA http://www.rabinergroup.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html