Any good darkroom session requires good coffee. I use distilled water in my espresso machine. It does not leave mineral deposits in the machine like tapwater, and it boils at a hotter temperature.
Oh, and i use it for all my film processing, from presoak to rinse. (the water not the coffee)
Distilled water boils at a LOWER temperature than water with solutes present. Basic chemistryIts a small effect, e.g. about one degree C for every 60 grams of salt added to distilled water.
in taste tests i've seen, coffee and tea made with distilled water do miserably. don't know why. i use water from a britta filter for this ... gets rid of chlorine and rust and a lot of the mineral content (enough to prevent scale) but leaves it tasting like water.
I've read/heard that tea, at least, needs dissolved oxygen for best flavor, while coffee actually needs a certain amount of dissolved minerals. However, distilled is better than the tap water either here or the last place I lived, and a Brita is too much of a pain to use for everything.
If a contact print at arm's length is too small to see, you need a bigger camera. :D
"Any good darkroom session requires good coffee."
Any good darkroom session requires ice (made with distilled water) and scotch (made with distilled barley mash).
tim in san jose
Actually scotch is made from distilled beer. Better not use distilled water for that. Distilling a mash would get messy. Distilling the sparge water would give you a sweet syrup.
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