[Leica] Agfapan 25 16x20

[robertmeier at usjet.net (Robert Meier)]

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On Jan 8, 2012, at 4:16 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> Yes I would have gone with Leica glass however I  don't really have a Leica
> lens optimized for close up so I may have passed.
> In 1994 I only had a couple of Leica lenses.
> When I got my 90 Elmarit in '97 I'm sure I tested it out on them.
> It possible may have been I did the project in the fist place becuae I'd
> just got the 105 2.8 micro and wanted to see what it would do.
> Shooting it with a heavy Gitzo and running Agfapan 25 in Rodinal 1:100 was
> one way to find out. I shot most of them around f8 or f11. With a locked up
> mirror. Shutter speed? I may have not paid very much attention to it as it
> didn't make much difference.
> Years later I did so some shots of the telephone poles with my 90 APO ASPH
> which posted a few weeks ago as I've been shooting those for not just that
> week for that project but for years. Decades.
> Whenever I got any new lens for any camera system one of the first things 
> id
> shoot would be the telephone poles. But not always with the Gitzo sometimes
> I'd just do it in direct sunlight or flash.
> But I shot those poles as did many of my Portland friends in all kinds of
> light and all kinds of glass. All kinds of film.
> And I sure shot them when I first got my 120 f4 CFI  Makro Planar T* for my
> Hasselblads.
> I know I shot them in all kinds of light with my Digilux 1 Panasonic Leica
> digital. Great fun.
> 
> Mark R.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/
> 
> 
>> From: Robert Meier <robertmeier at usjet.net>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:18:46 -0600 (CST)
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Agfapan 25 16x20
>> 
>> That's a very handsome print.   It looks like it is very, very sharp.  If 
>> you
>> had had the Leica then, would you have shot this with the Leica?
>> 
>> 
>> On Jan 8, 2012, at 2:14 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>> 
>>> What popped up today was a Portland Telephone Pole in black and white in
>>> frame a 16x20 print shot with Agfapan 25 film and developed in Rodinal 
>>> 1:100
>>> printed on Ilford Multigrade fiber. My most dramatic example of these.
>>> The negative was shot with a 105 micro Nikkor AF and a tripod. (Gitzo)
>>> The jpeg was shot with a 12.0-24.0 mm f/4.0 DX Nikkor and bounce flash 
>>> off
>>> the ceiling.
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/050108_062301.jpg.html
>>> or
>>> http://tinyurl.com/73x8lja
>>> This was hung in my bedroom in Portland OR as you see it now.
>>> Its framed in a 20x24 metal frame and matted with 100% museum board I 
>>> cut on
>>> a matt cutter. I think I made 16 or more of these telephone poles all 
>>> shot
>>> the same week on Agfapan 25 for a show in a then new now gone local 
>>> upscale
>>> espresso lunch shop Cafe Fresco a block from my house on  24th and 
>>> Thurman
>>> in 1992. A year before I got my first Leica.
>>> 
>>> This jpeg was shot 7 years ago. 2005
>>> All my cells have replaced themselves.
>>> I'm a new man now.
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Mark R.
>>> 
>>> 
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