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Subject: [Leica] James Whitlow Delano in Burma
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 06:11:32 +0930
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Hi Richard,

> What's considered a moderate contrast lens in Leica land in the 35 / 50mm?

When I ran into JWD in the field a decade or so ago he had an M2 and a
35/2.8 Summaron.  A pre-asph Summicron is also good.  Any of the
seven-element 50 Summicrons are also good.

> I presume old style B&W film too? So may be Adox / Foma 100?

Not sure, you can get that effect with the diffusion; but Efke/Adox or
Foma films have an older-style look.


> What is the JWD filter, besides James Whitlow Delano :-)? Lets see,

Yes, just the James Whitlow Delano filter ;-)

> looks like you are saying:
> - make it darker
> - diffuse some, and somehow diffuse shadows into highlights
> Sounds right? I suppose I can play with Photoshop....

Yes indeed; it sounds right.  I am not great with PS, so I can't offer
any additional advice there.


> To each their own :-) Thanks for the pointers!!

Indeed; no problem.

Marty


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