Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And as far as hobby go, one can do a lot worse than photography. On Aug 26, 2010 3:51 PM, "Jeffery Smith" <jsmith342 at gmail.com> wrote: > I loved the appearance of Panatomic-X developed in Rodinal. I still like the coal blacks of silver halide, and haven't been able to manipulate digital camera images in PS to replicate that look. Now that I have only 2 hair-shedding animals in the house (down from 7), I'm going to start souping film again. I trust that any pet hair that hasn't been vacuumed up with stick to the emulsion of the first roll. > > Jeffery > > On Aug 26, 2010, at 4:27 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >> Trust me Jeffery I have long experience with Panatomic x it is my signature >> film. Panatomic in 35mm does not a Rolleiflex or Hasselblad make. >> I had to prove that well known fact to myself before I started saving up for >> medium format systems. >> The bottom line with film as well as digital capture is always going to be >> Real estate real estate real estate. >> Acreage acreage acreage. >> You can set your little format camera to iso 100 but as an image making tool >> a larger format camera is going to still blow it out of the water on a slew >> of accounts. >> This is not my quirky opinion but the first thing anybody learns when they >> get into photography either in the classroom, in the real world, or reading >> a good photography book. The point in denying that is what? You don't get to >> play with little cameras? >> >> As far as this thread name goes... It is just as poorly thought out as the >> text which was under it. >> 35mm is not "best" and I certainly never implied that and didn't see anybody >> else imply that. >> What is "best" is not crippling yourself with a format smaller than >> necessarily to get the shot done well. >> >> -------------------- >> Mark William Rabiner >> Photography >> mark at rabinergroup.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information