Re: [Leica] Moving to B&W, recommendations please

[n.wajsman@chello.nl]

Richard,

Everyone has his/her own favorite film and soup, so in the end you will have to experiment a bit. My workflow is similar to yours--develop in a Jobo, and then scan in a film scanner. FWIW, my favorites in the different speed ranges are:

Slow: Fuji Acros developed in XTOL 1+3
Medium: Ilford Delta 400 or Kodak Tri-X developed in XTOL 1+3 or 1+1
Fast: Fuji Neopan 1600 developed in XTOL 1+1

Nathan
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> van: "Richard F. Man" <richard-lists@imagecraft.com>
> datum: 2003/12/08 ma AM 09:34:09 CET
> aan: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> onderwerp: [Leica] Moving to B&W, recommendations please
> 
> All these talks about T-max and Xtol... so I want to go back to B&W. I will 
> likely do my own processing using the Jobo. SO agitation and temperature 
> control is not a problem. I don't have a real darkroom so my preferred 
> method of working will be similar to what I do with color slides - develop 
> in the Jobo, then scan in using the Nikon LS-4000 scanner. I don't have a 
> very good solution for B&W output yet (I have a Kodak 8500 dye sub and an 
> Epson 1280, both can do decent B&W, but not great B&W) but I will address 
> that one way or another. Most of my picture taking are done in the ASA400 
> range, occasionally I would use ASA1600.
> 
> I think I would like film with good tonal ranges, decent sharpness and of 
> course scan well. So given those information, what would you recommend? 
> Should I just go with Eric's comment that
> ***
> Talking about tonality, nothing I've seen can touch Press Maxx developer 
> for beautiful tones with both TMY and TMX. TMX is simply amazing with it.
> ***
> Thoughts? Thanks!
> 
> // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please 
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