Time to do TX320, Rodinal or Xtol?

Christiaan Phleger

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• Sep 20, 2006

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Going to do a large batch of TX320, is it Rodinal 1:50 or Xtol 1:0? Deep tank, about 25-30 sheets.

 

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Christiaan Phleger

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• Sep 21, 2006

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Well, did them in Rodinal, turned out nice, lower grain than I expected. Ended up hanging to dry in the hangers instead of clipping them, I had a problem or two with the extra slippery Photo-Flo-ed sheets.

 

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• Sep 21, 2006

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Dear RidingWaves,

If you are going to use Xtol in the future, download the Xtol data sheet from Kodak. It contains a wealth of information.

Neal Wydra

 

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Christiaan Phleger

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• Sep 22, 2006

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Yeah, I was going to do the Xtol route but my big tanks were 13 ltr and I didn't have enough on hand. So I used smaller tanks (2ltr) and did Rodinal 1:50.
Still trying to dial in the agitation for sheets in Rodinal. For small hand tanks I do constant agitation for the first 45 sec then like every 2 min. Hard to tell if each min or every 2 min for sheet works better.