Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Variant on "Food for Leicas"
From: Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 09:38:05 -0400
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At 08:57 AM 8/15/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Over the weekend I shot eight rolls with my two Ms to document the arrival
>of a second grandchild. Five were color negative (Supra 400), and they are
>outstanding -- great skin tones, sharp, fine grain, everything I wanted.
>Three rolls were B&W (TMY), and they are uniformly disappointing -- grainy,
>and lacking sharpness and contrast. I used a fresh stock solution of TMax
>developer to process them (I had used the same stock four days earlier to
>process several TMX and TMY rolls, and they were great), and used my
>standard method. I used both bodies (one 3 and one 6) and three lenses (50
>2.8, 90 2.8, and a Tri-Elmar) to shoot both kinds of film.
>
>Any suggestions? Thanks.///Dick Baznik


Try XTol developer, Dick.  I get much better results with that than with 
TMax developer.

Tina


Tina Manley, ASMP
http://www.tinamanley.com

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