Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]D Khong wrote: > > > > >I've recently been looking at old photographs from the 1930s and 1940s. ><snip> > >In particular, the tonal structure of these seems to be fantastic. In > >many shots, there are a million different shades of grey even within > >a small area: often rendered as an almost uniform shade in more modern > >400 ASA B&W shots. ><snip> > > > >Martin Howard, > > I am also enthralled by pics reminiscent of the era of about 50 years ago > in particular WW2 B&W prints. I get close to this effect by using an older > lens made in the 40-50s, HP5+ film and developing in D-76. Now I use XTOL > instead and the tonality is even better, and grain is finer. > > Dan K. Me too on the Xtol as you well know Dan but I'm just wondering if what Martin is grooving on here is the look of Pyro which I think was the look of that era. I just heard it was by far the most popular developer then. I think it was the Anshell/Troop book. Mark Rabiner