Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/11/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The technical info on the tri-x portrait is as interesting as the grain structure. That said, the portrait is a different take on a lovely model. A clean, simplified composition--half the face, twice the art Ric Carter http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/ricc/ On Nov 15, 2008, at 11:13 PM, Alan Magayne-Roshak wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 > Leonard Taupier <len-001@verizon.net> wrote: > >> Alan, > >> You really are adventuresome. It has been many years since I >> developed film by inspection and I've never split the process with >> two developers. Good going. Don't worry about Rodinal. I think it >> takes years to go bad if at all. > >> I really like your photo of the GTorpedo car. It looks like it would >> be right at home on the salt flats. What a lovely color. > >> Your b&w photos look good. The photo of the leaves looks different. >> Maybe it's the dof of the 1.2 lens. > >> What!! No Milwaukee in line two banger? > ________________________________________________________________ > In the past I've tried all kinds of film/dev combinations, since > with inspection > you don't need time/temp charts. I once had to expose Tri-X at ISO > 32, but > using Microdol-X developer (which gives less than rated speed) and > pulling the > film when the density looked right yielded this: > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Portraits/Model_AMR.jpg.html > > > > I have a16"x20" of this that looks like Panatomic-X. > > I'm going to scan more cars from that meet when I get time, and have > to find the > spec sheet on the cars that were there so I can post that info with > the pictures. > I think the Golden Torpedo dates from 1918! > > The Canon 50 f/1.2 seems to have a focus field that is dish-shaped, > with objects > on the edges sharp if they are closer to the lens than whatever is > actually in the > rangefinder focal point. > > Thanks everyone who commented on this set. > > Alan > > Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer > UPAA POY 1978 > University Information Technology Services > University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information