Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ouch, I've heard the same story on APUG. Mostly when Kodak sold the smaller size. I've only used the 5 liter size. I guess I've just been lucky. Len On Dec 3, 2006, at 8:52 PM, Brian Reid wrote: > >> I've never had XTOL go bad on me. > > Whereas my constant losing battle with XTOL was the primary reason > I abandoned wet processing for digital. I was obsessively precise > with mixing it with distilled water, storing it in glass bottles > that had no trapped air, and all that. But about half of the rolls > of film I developed with XTOL were ruined, and after losing 20 or > 30 rolls in a year to shit developer, I went out and bought a > digital camera and have not turned on the water in my darkroom since. > > Now I have a Photoshop filter that can fool all of you into > thinking that something was shot with Tri-X and developed in XTOL. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information