[pure-silver] Re: Film developer temperatures??
- From: "Gary W. Marklund" <Gary@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:15:56 -0700
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
>
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