Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/25

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Films and Developers
From: Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net>
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 13:42:45 -0400

At 01:06 PM 4/25/98 -0300, you wrote:
>Tina:
>
>With all this talk about Scala lately, I am wondering why a Tmax user like
>yourself has not tried the Direct Positive kit for this film.  
  Has anybody
>on the list tried this kit?
>
>Regards,
>
>Robert Stevens
>Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
>

Robert:

I have tried it.  The things that I don't like are that it cuts the film
speed in half, it is a six step process (fills all the bottle on my Jobo
which means I have to clean out the E-6 bottles), and it seems expensive to
me compared to just making duplicates of my negatives on negative film.
The samples that I had seen of the Scala showed a much greater tonal range
than I got with the Direct Positive kit.  Let me know what you think.  Tina


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