Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Exposing Tri-X at 320
From: John Brownlow <john@pinkheadedbug.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 10:16:25 -0400

on 26/7/00 9:52 am, Brougham at brougham3@yahoo.com wrote:

> "Dan Honemann" <ddh@home.com> wrote:
> 
>> If you intentionally overexpose by a third of a stop by rating Tri-X
>> at 320, do you then under develop by the proportionate amount?  Or do
>> you develop as normal and let the latitude of the film compensate for
>> the overexposure (hoping to bring out more details in shadows)?
> 
> Run--don't walk--and beg/borrow/steal Ansel Adam's _The Negative_.
> You'll learn more than you ever wanted to know.  :)

Yeah, baby, yeah! Despite one or two oddities, this is still better and
easier to understand than most of the other books on the ZS. The ZS is so
fundamentally simple, it gets complicated by people who see a way to make
money out of it!!

- -- 
Johnny Deadman

http://www.pinkheadedbug.com