Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/08

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Subject: [Leica] My first self-developed roll in 9 years
From: amr3 at uwm.edu (Alan Magayne-Roshak)
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 19:44:26 -0600 (CST)

On Sun, 8 Jan 2012 Lluis Ripoll <lluisripollquerol at gmail.com>wrote: 

>There are at least 6 years I've not developped at home, the reason?   
>IMO the quality of the water is not the same as it was some years ago,   
>there some micro particles spoting the film, even with a filter I was   
>not happy with the results, maybe in Alicante you have better water   
>than in Barcelona, the other way is use destillate water... but   
>finally I go to Copia... 

>Saludos 
>Lluis 
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Distilled water is the only way to go, IMHO , at least for developer and 
Photo-Flo.  Plus I always wiped the 35mm film with a Kodak Photo-Chamois to 
prevent spots.

Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
UPAA POY 1978
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