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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Small Town Main Street 1952
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:48:54 -0600
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I couldn't contribute to this level of tech talk.  The image that I posted, 
that started the discussion, was most likely the old Kodak Plus-X, ASA 50.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Dernie" <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Small Town Main Street 1952


>I wonder if it is grain aliasing?
> The most grainy looking scans I get from my Rolleiflex negs are from 
> 200asa film. Far more than the original, I have been told it is because 
> there is a digital aliasing effect due to the size of the grain and the 
> sampling frequency. 100asa and 400asa films do not have this problem, and 
> scans from both look less grainy.
>
> On 4 Dec, 2009, at 19:28, Daniel Ridings wrote:
>
>> 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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