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What happened?

from sam smith (ssmith@hotmail.com)
I have just developed a roll of 35 mm TMax 400 in Xtol 1:1 that has turned out clear with only the beginnings of about four very faint images on the right hand edge of some frames showing. Development time was the recommended one by Kodak. The tank was at least half full so suppossedly had plenty of developer in there. Now I can only put it down to two things. The first being that the 1 litre pack of Xtol had lumps in it and instead of throwing it away and using a new 5 litre pack I had, I persisted. Secondly when I had used the stop I inadvertantly poured Photo Flo in to the tank instead of fix. I poured out the Photo Flo and washed the tank a couple of times with water and then went on with the fixing.

Any ideas?

(posted 8494 days ago)

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