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Subject: [Leica] Neopan 400 and the Mighty Collapsible 'Cron
From: pmcc_2000 at yahoo.com (pmcc)
Date: Fri Aug 31 18:48:00 2007

Hoppy,

That pair of bruisers in the camera shop look vaguely
familiar.  Is that shop off Little Collins near Queen?

Peter.
SF, CA
and sometimes 
Queen Street, Melbourne, VIC


--- G Hopkinson <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> It does, (for an old school classic ;-) it does.
> And look at the Neopan 400 in XTOL 1:3 with a modern
> 50 (yes wide open).
>
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/a/Vic/MV4.jpg.html>
>
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/a/Vic/MV14.jpg.html>
> This ain't no old style aberration "glow" ;-)
> 
> Cheers
> Hoppy
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Neopan 400 and the Mighty
> Collapsible 'Cron
> 
> it does write very nicely
> 
> ric
> 
> 
> On Aug 31, 2007, at 1:13 AM, bob palmieri wrote:
> 
> > Folks -
> >
> > Shot some B&W over the past couple of weeks and
> was thinking about  
> > many things I've gleaned from a number of LUG
> participants.  I'm  
> > getting dangerously close to settling on Neopan
> 400 in Xtol (at  
> > either 1:2 or 1:3) as my default M load, and the
> collapsible 'cron  
> > is currently a front runner for the delineating
> device.  There  
> > seems to be a graceful character about the
> transition from the  
> > intended focus plane on outward. As much as I
> often cast aside the  
> > seemingly sentimental waxings of those who
> champion them old-school  
> > lenses I must say that I feel somewhat susceptible
> to a certain  
> > graceful ease of imaging.  Here's a quick sample
> of stuff; the shot  
> > of guitar builder Ken Parker (someone with whom I
> work regularly)  
> > was shot with my regular working axe (Canon 20D)
> with a 50 1.8  
> > Canon EF.  The other three are of a more personal
> nature; they may  
> > therefore be of little interest to anyone other
> than myself. yet  
> > these kindof more intimate snaps are just the
> thing that the  
> > collapsible/film combo seems to deliver so well,
> to my eyes (all  
> > from the Neopan 400 roll developed in Xtol 1:2).
> >
> > http://www.pbase.com/bobsworld/bw_08-07
> >
> > Bob Palmieri



       
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