Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/07/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Actually, as far as I recall, Kodak's recommendation is 100ml of pure XTOL per film. And there are people here, like Mark Rabiner and yours truly, who have often violated this rule because we like to use XTOL 1+3 (which BTW is no longer recommended by Kodak). My Jobo tanks take about 1/2 l of solution, and so a 1+3 dilution of XTOL will have 125ml of XTOL in it. I have routinely developed Fuji Acros in this soup, 2 rolls at a time, with excellent results. Kodak of course wants to err on the conservative side, plus the cynic in me thinks that if everyone follows their recommendations (the 100ml minimum, no dilutions greater than 1+1) then Kodak will sell more XTOL ;-) Nathan Frank Filippone wrote: > XTOL is one of those developers that require a minimum chemical volume. I > am not nor ever have been a XTOL user. > > Kodak recommends a minimum solution of 200mL per roll of film. This is > when > you use XTOL at "full strength". You had best read more on the Kodak site > to find out the meaning of this data point. However, the practical > information is that you can develop only 3 rolls per run of 600mL maximum > in > the ATL1000. You use the developer one shot. > > http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professional/support/techPubs/j109/j109.jhtml > ?id=0.1.16.14.30.14.7.20.14&lc=en#small-tank,%20tray,%20and%20rotary-tube%20 > processing > > II should have said to start that I am a B+W user only. I have never used > the JOBO with color chemistry, nor with paper development. > > Frank Filippone > red735i@earthlink.net > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands Mobile: +31 6 30 868 671 General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com