[Leica] Sigh......

[jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith)]

Well, I stockpiled some Rodinal when Agfa went belly up. I thought it would
be the ideal developer for Rollei 25. That was not the case, as it was a bit
high on the contrast and very high on grain. I was wondering if anyone had
used Rodinal with Acros or Pan F. 

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



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From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Don Dory
Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2006 9:34 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Sigh......


Jeffery,
With scanners picking up any flaw in a negative I've found that I can not
afford to not use a hardening fixer.  Just pulling a negative out of the
sleeve can leave enough of a scratch that I have to heal the wound before I
print it.

As to Rodinal, with the higher speed films I mostly use, Xtol 1:2 or 1:3
works better magic for me.  But I think that I will try Acros in Rodinal
1:50 to see if I can get better tonality than I can with Xtol.  I think that
the increased edge effects will work to my advantage.  I'll find out in the
next couple of weeks.  Heresy, I will be using a tripod with an M and modern
glass to see just what can be done on some abstract images with 35mm.


On 11/11/06, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342@cox.net> wrote:
>
> Part of the issue is probably my reluctance to jump into the middle of 
> an M8 dicusssion to ask a question about Rodinal or hardening fixers. 
> ;-)
>
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com
> http://400tx.blogspot.com/
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of 
> Don Dory
> Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2006 9:13 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Sigh......
>
>
> Jeffery,
> Well, for the most part rangefinders are still raging on.  Tina and 
> Ted will be showing us more and more of their M8 images.  For the most 
> part, all of my PAW's are film based, M originated images.
>
> Many on this list are still shooting film, probably a minority at this 
> point but still a significant number.  Digital is attracting the 
> attention because
> the work flow is much easier.  I must admit that developing film is
> becoming
> a minor chore and my preference is E-6 as the processing is for me much
> easier(someone else does the work)  But, I shot what will probably be some
> very good images of the framers working on the house next door and the
> excitement of looking at the negatives for the first time tomorrow morning
> will be the same rush as it has always been.
>
> Possibly it is the same reason that we no longer endlessly debate the 
> optical qualities of first generation Summicrons versus Summitar's; 
> the points have all been made many times.  In the past few years there 
> haven't been too many radical breakthroughs in film.  The new IR from 
> Rollei is pretty interesting as you don't have to load it in the dark,  
> the new Velvia 100F brings back most of the qualities of the old 
> Velvia with some lessening
> of the over the top red saturation.  Yawn.
>
> The beer in the saloon is still just the way you want it, the scenes 
> from rural Britain continue to amaze, travelogues from Amsterdam and 
> nearby countries down to Seville bring us to places we probably will 
> never go, photo tips and crits from Ted help us all get better.
>
> So, your point that we have a large group of friends that occasionally 
> talk about Leica's and film is well taken.  Clink, cheers and long 
> life.
>
> Don
> don.dory@gmail.com
>
>
> On 11/11/06, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342@cox.net> wrote:
> >
> > The rangefinder rage over the past 6 years has been fun and 
> > exciting. When I first got back into film photography in about 2000, 
> > the renewed interest in rangefinder cameras came at just the time I 
> > had a renewed interest in
> B&W
> > photography. There were many, many posts on the LUG, LEG, Rflist, 
> > and
> CVUG
> > lists. But now that digital has caught on and is here to stay, I 
> > have
> more
> > and more trouble finding film-related threads on the lists. Indeed, 
> > the posts on the CVUG and Rflist are few and far between these days. 
> > I'm wondering if the LUG should bifurcate into a LUG and a dLUG. I 
> > guess
> not.
> > The people on the LUG like one another too much to build a wall
> separating
> > formats.
> >
> > I guess this all really hit me when I tried to buy a Pentax 35mm 
> > SLR. I had to get one second-hand at KEH.
> >
> > Jeffery Smith
> > New Orleans, LA
> > http://www.400tx.com
> > http://400tx.blogspot.com/
> >
> >
> >
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