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Subject: [Leica] Further adventures of a lens abuser
From: scott at adrenaline.com (Scott McLoughlin)
Date: Thu May 12 06:43:15 2005
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Nice pics and great scans. How do you get such good contrast control
on (1) such a slow film and (2) a scanner to boot ?

Scott

Kenneth Frazier wrote:

>bonvini@optonline.net (Jay) wrote:
>
>  
>
>>What happened to the slow ASA films?
>>They seemed so sharp and fine grained - it seems that ASA 100 is the 
>>slowest
>>now.
>>    
>>
>
>I've been scanning a batch of Panatomic-X negatives from the mid 1970's,
>when I had a wet darkroom.  I'm scanning them with an Epson 4180, and
>the results are very good.  I loved that film, and still do....wish it
>were still around.
>
>The photos are here, with more to come, all shot with Nikon F2 Photomic,
>Nikkor 85 f/1.8.
>
>http://tinyurl.com/6sc2r
>
>Ken
> 
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