Gary, I googled "chillers", but got some really weird answers that can't possibly be what you're using. Tell me more about this. I swore off Kodak, so I'm using D100, FP4, some HP-5 (7x17), Bergger, and a Kodak (oops, oops, OOPS) litho film that's indestructible at all temps and exposures. IE, for the most part, I'm trying to stay WAY below 75 degrees. What sort of chiller do you use? Where did you get it? Mike On 20 Mar 2005 at 21:15, Gary W. Marklund wrote: Date sent: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:15:56 -0700 To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx From: "Gary W. Marklund" <Gary@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Film developer temperatures?? Send reply to: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Mike, > Very interesting. I am up in Peoria and also spent 15 years in S.F. I > develop my T-Max at 75 F in a Jobo, but use a chiller most of the > year. If you do a lot of developing it is well worth it. I bought mine > new and got a really good deal on it. No more temperature problems. > Gary > > At 04:03 PM 3/20/2005, you wrote: > >In my house here in Phoenix, 68 degrees is not even close to room > >temperature, not from March until nearly December. I do still try to > >develop at 68 degrees because one constant temp just means a variable > >I'm not wrestling with. But this usually involves a lot of time > >getting water to temp, and a lot of ice packs, and sometimes a few > >nips from the spare bottle of distilled water kept in the > >refrigerator. There have been times in, say, July when I'm saying the > >heck with it, and settling for 72 degrees. Anyhow, my rinse water in > >the summer is never cooler than about 85 degrees. Home-based > >alternative process photography (silver-based b&w) is a dubious > >activity down here for a good part of the year, I'm sorry to say. I > >really miss my years in San Francisco, when the tap virtually never > >exceeded 50 degrees, and a water bath was something you'd warm on the > >stove before using. > > > >mike > > > >On 20 Mar 2005 at 16:52, Jim MacKenzie wrote: > > > >From: "Jim MacKenzie" <jim@xxxxxxxxxxx> > >To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Film developer > >temperatures?? Date sent: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 16:52:12 > >-0600 Send reply to: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > 20 degrees (68 F) makes a good film development temperature, in my > > > opinion, primarily because it's room temperature > > > >===================================================================== > >======================================== To unsubscribe from this > >list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same > >e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and > >unsubscribe from there. > > > > ====================================================================== > ======================================= To unsubscribe from this list, > go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail > address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe > from there. ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.