Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That couldn't possibly happen. Unless you were using water as a stop bath rather than an acid stop bath. In acid stop bath, development stops instantly. Stop bath can't increase highlight density unless it's just water and you don't agitate enough, so that development continues for a while. Grain can increase because of a serious change of temperature. On top of that, I found Kodak (for my style of processing) had development times 30 seconds too long. But you are right, constant temperature is essential with TMax and requires a water bath in rooms that don't stay at 68 or 75 degrees. On Dec 7, 2003, at 9:40 AM, Slobodan Dimitrov wrote: > But more importantly was the issue of consistent temperature controls. > I > found that if my stopbath was more than 2-3 degrees over the developer > temp, > the highlights would blow out. Eric Carlsbad, CA http://www.jphotog.com "Clichés are like analogies. At the end of the day, you're just beating a dead horse" - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html