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Subject: [Leica] Lone posey - a return to the analog domain
From: abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)
Date: Thu Feb 9 12:34:41 2006
References: <4cfa589b0602091114y2030a97cqc68d4cab211009f9@mail.gmail.com> <jj5nu1pk6h6uijqs9a601huk8n714gg3b5@4ax.com>

Good idea, Eric. Probably would be fun to do some science. It gets a
bit expensive though both in time and in film.

But I keep a notebook so we'll see.

I absolutely agree that the scanning process evens out a lot. I don't
even know how to do identical scans between rolls of film.

Adam

On 2/9/06, Eric <ericm@pobox.com> wrote:
> Adam:
>
> >I took a lot of pictures but I liked this one simply because of the
> >single blossom amid the hodge-podge of ground cover:
> >
> ><http://www.adambridge.com/Photos/2006/02/05/TX400-2006-02-05-Davis-6.jpg>
>
> I like, too.  Well seen.
>
> >I processed this in XTOL 1:3 @ 68 degrees, manually. But this time I
> >played with the agitation, reasoning that in its stronger
> >concentration at the start of processing I should agitate more and
> >then, as the developer was moving toward exhaustion, agitation should
> >be curtailed so I agitated every 30 seconds for the first 4 minutes
> >and then every minute there-after.
>
> I wonder if the difference between agitating every 30s vs 60s is really
> going to jump out of a scan.  From what I've seen, most scanners are the
> great equalizers.  Makes everything just a little bit more mushy.  Lose a
> little bit of detail that would have been retained in a straight wet print.
>
> Would be very interesting to see a comparison of identically exposed
> negatives agitated slightly differently like you did to see if there's any
> visible difference in the final print, especially if you scan and then 
> print
> digitally.  Would be interesting if somebody else aside from myself does 
> it,
> that is.  :)
>
>
>
> --
> Eric
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>
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Replies: Reply from jdos2 at mindspring.com (Jeff Sumner) ([Leica] Lone posey - a return to the analog domain)
In reply to: Message from abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge) ([Leica] Lone posey - a return to the analog domain)
Message from ericm at pobox.com (Eric) ([Leica] Lone posey - a return to the analog domain)