Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/16

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Subject: [Leica] Tri-X and D-23
From: drodgers at casefarms.com (David Rodgers)
Date: Mon Jan 16 12:33:26 2006

Jeffery,

I really like this picture. If the light was horrific, you certainly
tamed it well. The tonality is very nice. If I have to choose one over
the other, I'll take tonality over acutance in portraiture. Yet
everything in this shot that's in focus looks plenty sharp to me.  

DaveR

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffery Smith [mailto:jsmith342@cox.net] 
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 8:49 AM
To: 'Leica Users Group'
Subject: RE: [Leica] Tri-X and D-23

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






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