[Leica] Neopan-Xtol Xpert-Tease Sought

[nathan at nathanfoto.com (Nathan Wajsman)]

Hi Bob,

The first image does not come up for me (I just see a question mark  
in the middle of the frame) but the second one looks OK.

I used Neopan 1600 a lot in my film-shooting days, but I developed it  
in Xtol 1+1, not 1+3.

Nathan

On 1-mrt-2007, at 5:53, bob palmieri wrote:

> Folks -
>
> I seem to recall that some Luminary Lug-gers have worked out the  
> details of Neopan 1600 in Xtol 1:3.
>
> I shot 2 rolls at 1600 and sent it to my Usual Guy who did the Xtol  
> thing at 1:3, although I didn't get his time/temp specs.  They both  
> looked pretty thin, but otherwise very impressive in terms of grain  
> structure.  So. I'm wondering:
>
> Should I try 800 ISO next round and have him do whatever he did  
> (seeing as how the web and the mags are full of folks who claim  
> that this stuff really ain't anywhere near 1600), or
>
> Should I try 1600 again and specify some percentage of increase in  
> development time (if so how much, d'ya think, without being able to  
> see the negs)?
>
> For what it's worth, here's a shot from each of the rolls (after I  
> beat on them a bit with levels & curves in Photoshop)- the first is  
> from my new(!!??!) Nikon F (??!!?) with a 50 1.4 cropped close to  
> the field of an 85:
>
> http://www.pbase.com/bobsworld/image/74860346
>
> And this one, shot with my CL and 35 4th gen 'cron:
>
> http://www.pbase.com/bobsworld/image/74896881
>
> Or I s'ppose I could shoot another coupla rolls and try both...  I  
> gotta say, under the 30X mag the grain structure looked more  
> appealing to me than anything I've ever shot above 400.
>
> Bob Palmieri
>
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