[Leica] My First Leica PAW! (Ron de-lurks)

[ron-price at curiousrobot.com (Ron Price)]

Lumps? Maybe not. I genuinely didn't think much of this photo, though, and I
am grateful and pleased for so many positive and helpful responses. Thanks
to everybody!

I was shooting the Neopan 1600 at 800; my development time in Rodinal 1+50
was almost the same as the "standard" time for 1600. I suspect that had I
shot it at 1600 and used the chart time, I would have found it
underdeveloped, too. (I haven't been using the Neo 1600 for very long;
obviously it's time to run those tests...)

Ron



On 4/17/04 8:16 AM, "Don Dory" <dorysrus@mindspring.com> wrote:

> Ron,
> You expected lumps?  You have obviously been listening to the advice
> given by Ted to shoot from the dark side; you haven't been bitten by the
> "don't crop" bug; the penalty box shot is quite good.
> 
> As to under developing Neopan 1600 I think that you just discovered how
> much information there is in a "thin" negative.  Most of the individuals
> that don't like 1600 are shooting it at 1000 to 1200 and developing the
> negs to something more appropriate to a platinum large format negative.
> 
> Keep up the PAW.
> 
> Don
> dorysrus@mindspring.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf
> Of Ron Price
> Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 1:22 AM
> To: lug@leica-users.org
> Subject: [Leica] My First Leica PAW! (Ron de-lurks)
> 
> Hello, all!
> 
> My name's Ron. I'm an amateur (photographer, that is) in Columbus, OH, USA.
> 
> I've been lurking here for a couple of years now... I think I had one post
> when I first started looking at Leicas (and I bought my 35mm Summicron from
> Phong here), but I've been silent since. I've been trying to re-dedicate
> myself to getting out and shooting, so I've started a PAW project. This week
> is the first time since I started where I was shooting with my M6.
> 
> To make my LUG debut all the more nerve-wracking, I had very little (less than
> usual, even) to choose from this week. I did, however, learn two things:
> 
> 1) I am not yet capable of estimating development times for films shot at ASAs
> for which I do not have a chart; and
> 
> 2) Even if you underdevelop your film by quite a bit, you can still salvage an
> image if you point your camera directly at the sun:
> 
> http://curiousrobot.com/PAWPics/week16.html
> 
> Not much, I know, but the point of this is to make myself do it, post it, and
> take my lumps, right?
> 
> The PAW index (three weeks old!) can be found here:
> 
> http://curiousrobot.com/paw2004.html
> 
> And some other stuff of mine is here:
> 
> http://curiousrobot.com/gallery1.html
> 
> Thanks to all who look, comment, or criticize! I hope to hear from some of
> you...
> 
> 
> Seeya,
> 
> Ron
> 
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