Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/06

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Subject: Re: [Leica] TP sux
From: Jean Marc Becker <jean-marc.becker@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 19:25:15 +0100
References: <B62C07AF.620%michaeljohnston@ameritech.net>

> 
> The beautiful part of this is that anyone who thinks TP is a great film gets
> stuck with...having to take pictures on TP. I can hardly think of a more
> fitting punishment.

TP is THE film. I use it for many purposes, astronomy, portraits,
landscapes, document reproduction, photomicrography. 
In planetary pictures, I can reduce the resulting focal length, and
finally TP is more sensitive than T Max. His best interest is his
ability to modulate contrast. Used at 25 ISO, he is a very fine portrait
or lanscape film. At 200 ISO, the 3 gamma makes it an excellent film for
planetary pictures, and for reproduction of B&W documents. 
I use it for Ronchi gratings, or for Zone Plate objectives. 
HC 110 is, for my taste, an excellent developper. 
It needs care for time, dilution, and temperature developper. But
results are here. 

JMB

In reply to: Message from Mike Johnston <michaeljohnston@ameritech.net> ([Leica] TP sux)