Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/30

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Subject: [Leica] OT - Wet Darkroom Wizards
From: pearceww at rmi.net (Warren Pearce)
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 18:51:28 -0600
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Playing (using) the Zone System is a big help in this area.
WWP

At 05:41 PM 4/30/2011, you wrote:
>On Sat, 30 Apr 2011  Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> >This:
> >http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Henley_Grange_Beach.jpg.html
> >is Tri-X exposed at EI100 and developed in Xtol to manage a 3-4 stop
> >wider luminance range than the film could handle at the higher CI that
> >would be given by ISO exposure and development - CI 0.62 or
> >thereabouts.  Additional exposure is vastly less harmful to tonality
> >than decreased exposure, but it does decrease sharpnness and increase
> >grain.  I don't mind losing a bit of both of them to get better
> >tonality.
>==================================================================================================
>And how about this?  Tri-X exposed at 32 ISO, then developed in Microdol-X:
>
><http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Portraits/Model_AMR.jpg.html>
>
>I do all my B&W film by inspection development.
>
>Alan
>
>Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
>UPAA POY 1978
>University Information Technology Services
>University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
>amr3 at uwm.edu
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/
>
>
>
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