If you are push developing a significantly high percentage of your film, you may find that a slightly higher replenishment rate will be needed to maintain your X-Tol in a steady state. On the other hand, a lot of shots taken with film slated for push development seem to have lots of shadows, and relatively few mid-tones and highlights, which tends to have the opposite effect.I got another question, how about pushed film? Since it stays longer in the developer, should it not be put back in the working solution? Or use a different rate of replenisher?
I developed three rolls of 35mm ISO 400 pushed 2 stops in fresh stock solution and now I’m wondering what to do with it. I used a slightly higher temperature so the time was shorter but at the end it got me thinking what to do with it since it got that workout.
It seems to me that some people are saying that replenishment procedures with XTOL somehow produce "better" negs than unreplenished XTOL, if I'm interpreting this properly I'd love to hear about this. I ran replenished lines at a pro lab years ago and there it was done for reasons of economy with control strips, but this idea that in a home lab, replenished developer is somehow superior to unreplenished developer is something I'd like to learn more about.
It seems to me that some people are saying that replenishment procedures with XTOL somehow produce "better" negs than unreplenished XTOL, if I'm interpreting this properly I'd love to hear about this. I ran replenished lines at a pro lab years ago and there it was done for reasons of economy with control strips, but this idea that in a home lab, replenished developer is somehow superior to unreplenished developer is something I'd like to learn more about.
it is significantly better looking than unreplenished xtol. You get all the speed and acutance of xtol diluted 1+1, but the grain structure takes on this silky smooth characteristic that just looks wonderful.
I’ve been posting images on my media page of our home life during our county’s shelter in place order that were developed in replenished xtol on my JOBO if you care to look.
I have also been enjoying the benefits of XTOL R. It does seem as though I go through a similar amount of stock as if I were doing 1:1, though of course it's very slightly less. I keep 5L of working solution going. I've also been noticing a grey particulate building up at the bottom of my tank so I'm going to need to clean that out. Overall I haven't seen HP5+ negatives look this good.
However, the improvements in IQ are real and it should be less affected by oxidation in a rotary process.
I've been happy with the performance of XTOL-R, interesting though that a former poster here - possibly Gerald Koch - has stated that XTOL doesn't give the same advantages in replenishment that MQ developers may do. I must say that I've not done sufficient reading to come to an indedependent conclusion and other knowledable people here such as Ian Grant have endorsed the use of XTOL in a replenished regime. One film to note though is that I've found Pan F Plus may work better in dilute XTOL, 1+1.5 seems to be a good option.
Okay... rethinking this... possibly... let me ask: Are you running XTOL-R 1:1 or straight stock? It's possible one of my problems lay in 1:1 rather than straight stock.
Thanks. Yep 'splaining a lot of why I guess it didn't work. As Homer put it: "Doh!"
The X-Tol MSDS:
Sodium sulphite (7757-83-7), Sodium tetraborate, pentahydrate (12179-04-3), Pentetic acid,
pentasodium salt (140-01-2), 4-hydroxymethyl-4-methyl-1-phenyl-3-pyrazolidinone (13047-13-7)
The Legacy Pro MSDS:
SODIUM SULFITE 7757-83-7 5mg/m³* 5mg/m³* 70-80
SODIUM ERYTHORBATE 16381-77-7 N.E. N.E. 15-20
SODIUM METABISULFITE 7681-57-4 N.E. 5mg/m³* 5-10
The Legacy Pro instruction sheet makes no reference to replenishment.
I wouldn't risk trying it with replenishment, but I'm naturally cautious.
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