Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I too, use my Leica with Tri-X at 800, but I also use Tech Pan for close-up nature studies. I want a camera ,lens and developer systems that let me do both. Coming into the photography world from the microscope world it seems to me that the lighting systems of photo enlargers could be greatly improved. Why spend $1000 on a high contrast,low stray light, lens and throw all the contrast away with a cold light head? Brett Weston for many years used a point source in his enlarger and brought out detail and texture that he only was able to get by contact printing. My point is that there is often much more in a Leica negative than we are seeing in our prints.