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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Small Town Main Street 1952
From: dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 20:28:12 +0100
References: <FBAAD7B767F44393AC3885EE37B4BCA0@jimnichols> <a2f8f4470912031211r2cdad464t9da63eb2ba899010@mail.gmail.com> <EECE76CB50D240A19EF56323361BC5B8@jimnichols>

Jim, I too have noticed how old negatives (I have a lot from 35-40
years ago) really turn out grainy. There's probably a reason, but
since there's not much we can do about it, I've never done anything
about it. That's just the way it is.

They usually turn out just fine in prints.

Daniel


On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:01 AM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> 
wrote:
> Daniel,
>
> That was my first year with the Leica, while I was still in the USAF, and I
> had no darkroom. ?I suspect it was done by Salem Camera Shop in Dayton, OH,
> where I was stationed. ?It does look kind of grainy, but it was also an
> early scan of a negative that had been in a cigar box for over 50 years.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Ridings" <dlridings at 
> gmail.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 2:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Small Town Main Street 1952
>
>
>> Man, that looks exactly like one side of the square in Greenville,
>> Illinois. I almost had to read the names of the stores to make sure it
>> wasn't. Nice.
>>
>> What'd you develop your Plus-X in? Undiluted Dektol?
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> One more from the past. Typical small town main street during the 1950s.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Commerce+Street+Aberdeen+MS+52.jpg.html
>>>
>>> Leica IIIa, Coated Elmar 50/3.5, Plus-X
>>>
>>> Comments and critiques welcomed.
>>>
>>> Jim Nichols
>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>
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