Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. > -- > // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> > // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.com/blog/> > // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> > [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous > replies in your msgs. ] > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >