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Subject: Re: [Leica] white spots on Tri X and Xtol
From: "Bas" <bas@baswip.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 23:18:35 +0200
References: <r02000100-1026-BD22B251E88511D79BD60003936C5BDE@[10.0.1.3]> <3F6776EC.4030100@aol.com>

I've had white spots on my film all the $#@@ time and I thought it was dust
that what doing me in. I also use X-tol and have just tried D76 after having
gone through the whole water etc change thing. I'll let you know how my
experience turns out.

Bas

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerry Walden" <gwpics@aol.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 10:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] white spots on Tri X and Xtol


> The common factor is Xtol. It is why some of us (myself included) moved
> away from it a long time ago! I simply found it an unreliable developer
> that was throwing up various 'mysterious' problems.
>
> Gerry
>
> Tarek Charara wrote:
>
>  > > I need some help on the following. Recently I have been getting very
>  > > small spots on my Tri X ( the new one ) developed in Xtol 1:3
>  > >
>  > > Using developer from the same container, Delta 100 was fine. I kept
the
>  > > processing technique as similar as I could in both cases , and it's
the
>  > > same as what I have been doing all this while without problems.
>  > >
>  > > Could it be bubbles resulting in uneven development?
>  > >
>  > > Rgds
>  > > Roland
>  > > Singapore
>  >
>  > Roland,
>  >
>  > I'm happy to see that I'm not the only one having this problem. I have
>  > the same problem with TMZ. I changed water (using distilled water
>  > only), stop bath (tried: water, acetic acid...), different fixing
>  > baths... nothing changed. Even when changing XTol batches.
>  >
>  > Maybe we could find a common thing in our dev. methods that could lead
>  > us to the origin of this ugly phenomenon...
>  >
>  > Tarek
>  >
>  > Tarek Charara
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Replies: Reply from Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> (Re: [Leica] white spots on Tri X and Xtol)
In reply to: Message from Tarek Charara <tarek.charara@pix-that-stimulate.com> (Re: [Leica] white spots on Tri X and Xtol)
Message from "Gerry Walden" <gwpics@aol.com> (Re: [Leica] white spots on Tri X and Xtol)