Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Who makes Press maxx? On Monday, Dec 8, 2003, at 19:34 Australia/Melbourne, Richard F. Man wrote: > 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 use richard@imagecraft.com) > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > Alastair - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html