Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I wish I still had a set of little scoops that were used for hand-loading power and shot into shotgun shells. Maybe I'll look for them at this month's gun show. At 08:14 AM 01/16/2006, you wrote: >On 1/16/06 5:48 AM, "Jeffery Smith" <jsmith342@cox.net> typed: > > > Yes, that is pretty much what I got. I wasn't expecting to get such > > little > > grain that it couldn't really even be called "grain". I'm thinking that > > it > > might be a good people film/dev combination, but a terrible landscape > > combination. There doesn't seem to be a lot of sharpness anywhere > (but I was > > shooting wide open indoors under horrific lighting conditions with no > > ambient light and a big window to our right side). > > http://www.400tx.com/george.html > > > > I'm ambivalent on it. The sheer simplicity of D-23 (two powders) makes me > > want to explore it a bit more, at least under some different conditions. > > > > > > Jeffery Smith > > New Orleans, LA > > http://www.400tx.com > > > > >d23 will give you just the kind of grain you'd like to get, depending how >much Sulfite you put in, it will be VERY smooth mushy fine grain at 100grams >per liter full strength. And will give you a crispy Rodinal almost grain at >around a tenth that; which I've done extensively, a bad analogy would be >"how much scotch grad do you want to spray on that raincoat? Do you want to >sweat all day but stay dry in a deluge? Never mind, >d23 is just giving you two simple tools to easily make your own developer >with, as there are only two there is little or no confusion as to what is >doing what when you do a tweak, blow it up and compare, > >Ansel would say that its not the developer its how you dilute it, > >In this case you can in effect dilute each of two main and only parameters >separately. And easily. And fun, and you can SEE the results You made. >In you chemistry office Bat cave. >I think the sulfite is like the reed pull stop and the Metol is like the >flues stop, > > > > > > > >Mark Rabiner >Photography >Portland Oregon >http://rabinergroup.com/ > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information