Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Variant on "Food for Leicas"
From: John Brownlow <john@pinkheadedbug.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 09:31:18 -0400

on 15/8/00 8:57 am, Richard E. Baznik at reb10@po.cwru.edu wrote:

> Over the weekend I shot eight rolls with my two Ms to document the arrival
> of a second grandchild. Five were color negative (Supra 400), and they are
> outstanding -- great skin tones, sharp, fine grain, everything I wanted.
> Three rolls were B&W (TMY), and they are uniformly disappointing -- grainy,
> and lacking sharpness and contrast. I used a fresh stock solution of TMax
> developer to process them (I had used the same stock four days earlier to
> process several TMX and TMY rolls, and they were great), and used my
> standard method. I used both bodies (one 3 and one 6) and three lenses (50
> 2.8, 90 2.8, and a Tri-Elmar) to shoot both kinds of film.

Tmax developer? BONG.

However, I can't account for the difference you saw between the two batches.
Something must have been different... sounds like underdevelopment possibly
complicated by underexposure to me. Possible causes: exhausted/oxidised
developer, low temperature, shorter time, insufficient agitation, different
water supply, general displeasure of the tutelary deities.

- -- 
Johnny Deadman

http://www.pinkheadedbug.com