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Subject: [Leica] Xtol temperature
From: lists at heninger.org (Wade Heninger)
Date: Thu Dec 1 07:55:08 2005

> > The average temperature of your water is of no interest at all.
> > What is of interest is the termperature of your developer when you
> > develop film.

Why not just forgo all this averaging stuff and just use water baths to get
that developer/water combo to 68 before pouring it into the tank.

Pour in developer, pour in tap water measured as close to 68 as you can, and
then use cold/hot water bath to bring the temp up/down with the thermometer
in the mixture.  Takes a bit of time, but it gives you the actual temp at
time of insertion.

That is what the rest of us do to control temperature and doing this
eliminates one variable in solving your problem.

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Wade Heninger
Heninger Photographik
http://heninger.org




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