Developing times for Delta 400 in XTOL

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Hi All,

I've searched through the messages here but haven't found what I'm looking for. Does anyone have some small tank develoment times for 35mm Delta 400 in XTOL?

I'd like to know your EI, dilution, temperature, agitation method, and time. I'm particularly interested in EI 400 at 1+1 if you've done that.

Also, is it even possible to develop using Xtol at 1+2 or 1+3 with 2 rolls in a 16 oz (473 ml) tank? If I need 100-120 ml of stock soln. per 36 exp. roll that works out to a maximum 1+1 dilution. Is there any real difference between XTOL 1+1 and 1+2 or 1+3? I see differing opinions on this. Thanks.

Barry

-- Barry Schmetter (bschmett@my-deja.com), November 15, 1999

Answers

I've done about 40 rolls of D400 in XTOL 1+1, shot at 400, developed for 9 minutes @ 70F/21C. Agitation, continuous first 30 seconds, one inversion thereafter. Works for me. I've also tried 1+2 dilution, two rolls of 35mm 36exp. in 500ml of developer, and it worked fine. The resulting neg looks sharper but a bit grainier than 1+1. I prefer the 1+1 look. At 1+3 it will apparently look even sharper and grainier, but you might need to expose at EI 200.

For suggested developing times for different films and dilutions, see Kodak's publication J-107, it's on the web too.

Hope this helps.

-- Jiri Dvorak (jiri_dvorak@idx.com), November 15, 1999.


Another source is the following web address: http://www.digitaltruth.com/. It seems to have just about any film/developer combination a persone could want.

-- Sam (sselkind@home.com), November 15, 1999.

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