Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What I like about XTOL is that it is very easy to mix. What I hate about it is that it looks perfectly good when it has died in the bottle. The cure for that problem would be to make smaller amounts every month, but Kodak discontinued the small size packaging. Which brings me to the Neopan 400 question...what is the best developer to use for Neopan 400? I don't like to use the Ilford liquid developers as they don't seem very reliable (like XTOL, I cannot determine if they have died in the bottle on the way over the pond). Jeffery Smith New Orleans, LA http://www.400tx.com http://400tx.blogspot.com/ -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Marc James Small Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 5:45 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: RE: [Leica] Has this ever happened to one of you? At 06:17 PM 12/3/2006, Jeffery Smith wrote: >The offending liquid was a sample of Arista Premium Developer from >Freestyle. I had no D76 on hand and tried it on some Neopan 400. I guess >this is why nobody I know uses Arista Premium Developer. :-0 Jeffery I always keep the raw chemicals for D-76 on hand. This stuff lasts forever and is quite inexpensive so, whenever I am caught without any developer on hand, I can fall back on home-made D-76. (Kodak blew a marketing opportunity this year, as 2006 marks the 80th anniversary of D-76. But then AGFA failed to do much with Rodinal when it turned 100 15 years ago. And almost no one has noted that 2006 is the 250th birthday of Voigtl?nder, albeit the company really ceased as an independent entity when it was merged with Zeiss Ikon in 1966 (the 210th birthyear!), then passed on to Rollei in 2003, gutted by them, with the brand names but nothing else later passing to the company which licenses these to Cosina.) I like XTOL but find it almost impossible to find locally. There is a home-brew recipe for that but I've never tried it -- you start out with orange juice and then you ... <he grins>. Someday, I'll try out the home-brew recipe to see what happens. Rodinal also lasts a LONG time so long as it is in glass bottles and not in plastic: I have some Rodinal which must be 40 years old or older but which keeps on working. Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information