Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/07/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > >The best of >these old emulsion was the Neopan F, a 40 ASA film with a 50's emulsion, >silver >rich and with smooth tones. They stopped production of it last year and I >miss >it. You could do 2x3 ft prints from 35 negs with amazing sharpness and >tones >- a Japanese version of the old Panatomic-X. > Pan-X........ too bad Kodak saw fit to quit making it. 37 years ago I watched a C-124 cargo aircraft burn on the tarmac at a small base in the Southern Philippines. At the time I had recently purchased my first "real" camera, a Fuji V-42. I took a picture of the plane after the fire department had finished. The plane was under guard so I was some distance away looking from between stacks of boxes. The camera had a 45mm lens and was loaded with Panatomic-X. Later, my father developed the film in straight D-76, IIRC. To get a decent-sized enlargement, I turned the D-2 Omega around and projected the image onto the ezel lying on the floor. The enlarger head was as high as it would go and the 50mm lens threw a huge image. The exposure was quite long but the detail was amazing! The tail number could be plainly read and other detail easily seen. I still have that negative somewhere and if I run across it, I'll scan it.