Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/25

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Subject: [Leica] My first 4x5!
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 02:16:14 -0700
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Folks folks folks, I know for sure that I made exposure errors on this one.
TMax-100 is known to be exceptional when the exposure is on, and this batch
wasn't :-( Pilot error, entirely my fault.


On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 2:00 AM, Cedric Agie <cedric.agie at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> I have had no experience with T-Max films (from Kodak) up to now, but
> I learned from good sources these more modern emulsions are totally
> differend. They were discovered almost by chance by Kodak in their
> better days when they tried to improve definition in color film and at
> the same time use less silver. Believe it or not they succeeded and
> applied this technology to B&W films. The silverhalide grains are so
> to say like flatstones. Not only their physical but also their
> chemical characteristics are totally differend. You cannot "push" them
> the normal way etc.
>
> I will see myself sooner or later, but I haven't made tests yet.
> Collegues Pro Photographers seem to be a bit reluctant towards these
> films and moved towards Illford classic B&W films.
>
> Regards
>
> Cedric
>
> 2013/3/25 Lew Schwartz <lew1716 at gmail.com>:
> > I didn't mean to be entirely humorous.  How long was the exposure? I find
> > modern emulsions don't suffer from as much reciprocity failure as those
> of
> > 15-20yrs ago. Sheet films, in my experience, need about .5 to 1 stop more
> > exposure and somewhat more development than you might expect, plus a
> fairly
> > active developer.  Another factor in all this might be that the T-MAX
> films
> > don't have the same silver content as the more traditional emulsions.
> > -Lew Schwartz
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Lew Schwartz <lew1716 at gmail.com> 
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Is that Richard Nixon?
> >> -Lew Schwartz
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 3:30 AM, Richard Man <
> richard at richardmanphoto.com>wrote:
> >>
> >>> Sadly, somewhat a bust since I forgot that TMax-100 has reciprocity
> >>> factor!
> >>> (too used to the Acros-100 in that sense)
> >>>
> >>> http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20130323-Scanned-67.jpg
> >>>
> >>> Underexposed by at least a stop but LR does half a decent job of
> rescuing
> >>> it.
> >>>
> >>> I have one that uses the Scheimpflug and sadly it's too underexposed to
> >>> save. The Scheimpflug does seem to work fine though in getting
> unparallel
> >>> plane of focus.
> >>>
> >>> (I know the development is fine as I was developing 12 sheets for
> another
> >>> person in exchange for 6 holders and they came out fine).
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
> >>>
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-- 
// richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>


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