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Sounds good Martin. That's pretty much the same conclusion I had come to yesterday once I looked at the actual hardness values here and saw that we're way up the chart. Demineralized water is readily available here in 5L jugs from a local supplier, and it's pretty cheap. I'll get a siphon pump to make it easy to dispense, and be good to go.

Good to know about Xtol. I bought a 5L package years ago and never used it, being busy with other developers. I'd like to mix it up now and see what it can do. Have to shoot a lot of film to use up that amount though.

Thanks for the advice! All the best.

PS - I may end up shooting a ton of film here....there are about 75 waterfalls within 100km of this town, about half of which are accessible by hiking. And I really like shooting waterfalls :-), so may end up using that 5 litres of XTol in no time.