[Leica] Divided D-76, and the lower 9th ward

[pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)]

Jeffery Smith wrote:

> I spent an hour shooting two rolls of film in the lower 9th ward this
> afternoon. I am not optimistic that anything will be of much interest. 
> There
> is so much devastation, it just looks like one might expect after a nuclear
> bomb detonating 20 miles away. I did find a child's toy rifle with a
> collection of barnacles on the stock (wish I had taken a macro lens on an
> SLR). I hope to get at least a PAW out of the 72 frames. Seeing so many of
> people's possesions in the ruins was depressing, like someone emptied all 
> of
> your drawers and closets into the mud.
> 
> On another topic, I just mixed up a batch of divided D-76 (I was getting to
> like D23 but my pastor somehow managed to knock all of the bottles off my
> shelf last Wednesday, breaking every last one of them) and am wondering 
> what
> to expect. Theoretically, it is a good idea (saturate the emulsion with
> developer, then place it in borax to develop the image with little
> possibility of overdevelopment). Of course, if it was good, everyone would
> be using it. Have ANY of you used it? If so, how did you like the results?
> I'm also sort of attracted to the temperature latitude (you don't need to
> measure temperature at alll, which is good since my wife put my Wesson dial
> thermometer in the oven when she baked some corn bread the other day...she
> couldn't figure out why the oven never got warmer than 125F).
> 
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> 
> 
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Look forward to seeing what you've got. I 've just been watching a longish 
piece 
on BBC NEws 24 - from I think it was the Ninth. About the likelihood of 
conflict 
between City and residents over the City's comments that the area will be 
flattened unless 50% of the residents come back. Some residents seem to be 
preparing for a long fight because they reckon that there will be far fewer 
than 
50%, but they want to stay. It looked a scene of total desolation even now.

Peter Dzwig