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Subject: [Leica] 12 stops of DR goodness
From: csaganich at gmail.com (Chris Saganich)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 02:05:59 -0500
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If that is the P30 then nice, looks like well tempered TriX.  Big yes, heavy
yes, what the hell, its smaller then a 4x5.

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Richard Man <richard at 
imagecraft.com>wrote:

> Well, we know they exaggerate, but here ya go:
>
> http://www.5pmlight.com/PICS/CF005965.jpg
>
> I feel my XPan landscape photos are sometimes limited by dynamic range,
> especially in the shadow area (as an aside, a very good Tri-X user says I
> should rate Tri-X at ISO200 and develop normally, except if they are
> contrasty, then N-1 [ slightly less convenient since XPan uses 35mm but
> film
> is cheap]). An opportunity came up to get a used Phase One P30 so bye bye
> 21' Summilux and hello P30 back. I picked up a basic 503CW kit from KEH
> (hey
> look, no dark slide needed :-) !) and putting the system through its pace
> in
> the last couple days. I think the viewfinder itself weighs more than the M
> so this is definitely not a hang on your neck or put in your pocket camera.
>
> My wimpy little Benro shakes like a [insert colorful metaphor here] and I
> need to pick up a more "manly" tripod. I am picking out another Benro. Now
> I
> need to choose a solid head. Joy joy joy.
>
> More testing next week after we return from Tai Chi lessons.
> --
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