Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/15

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Subject: [Leica] So long Rodinal. I'm going to miss you.
From: jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Wed Mar 15 17:21:07 2006

I'm getting very nice results with Fuji Acros. For some reason, nobody else
seems to be warming up to that film. 

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com




-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Daniel
Ridings
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 1:18 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] So long Rodinal. I'm going to miss you.


Fomapan 200 is pretty close, but only close. There _is_ nothing else like
APX100. It was too special. But Fomapan 200 is a very close second.

Ilford FP4+ is a beautiful film too.

Daniel

On 3/15/06, feli <feli2@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> On Mar 14, 2006, at 6:51 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote:
>
> > Give the communist version a try (from J&C Photo) or try the 
> > Photographer's Formulary generic version. I think Rodinal + Acros 
> > might be a winner.
>
>
> Finding a stock that is similar to APX100 is the biggest challenge of 
> this equation. It really was beautiful stuff, very 'creamy'. The tonal 
> range that it was able to capture
> just seemed to go on forever.
>
> I'll have to try some Plus-X and Hp4+ in Rondinal and see what it 
> looks like.
>
> A few years ago I used to soup Plus-X in D76. It had a little more 
> bite than APX100, but I'll also produced great results.
>
>
> feli
>
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Replies: Reply from dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] So long Rodinal. I'm going to miss you.)
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