Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 08-May-98 Alan Hull wrote: > > LUGers > Thanks for the reasurance that film still has a contribution to make > alongside digital. I also hope that this is true for a few more years. I > have just bought a used Liesegang 9x12 (5x4) enlarger in a flea market > complete with two enlarging lenses a 90mm Friedrich Munchen > Axinon,(whatever that is) and a Schneider 105mm Companon. It has huge > condensers but strangely the glass negative carrier has one glass > diffussed. Is this the best of both worlds or the worst? Never heard of > them combined before. For 35mm film I have to use the 90mm because the > bellows won't collapse enough to focus my El Nikkor 50mm. Of course I will > have lots of fun experimenting but to save me some aggro do any of you have > a suggestion as to whether I should aim for a low contrast negative for the > condensers or a hard negative for the diffused carrier. > > The good news is that the whole lot cost me 250 kronk which is about $30. > Wow. > > Alan Hull Let me preface this by saying that I dont shoot digital and this has nothing to do with my photography. Now, I am writting a report for a *computer* class on digital photography, I would appreciate any resourses that anyone knows describing the technology used and how it compares to film. Thanks Michael Garmisa------kilemall@shell.excelsior.net------08-May-98 22:11:08 - --------http://shell.excelsior.net/~kilemall/-------ICQ # 11583837------- - ------PGP key at: http://shell.excelsior.net/~kilemall/kilemall.asc------