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Subject: [Leica] de Young visit
From: richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 23:30:03 -0800
References: <172463.47315.qm@web120503.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>

:-)

I have an interior pic of that room just like yours somewhere. It's taken
with a cheapass digital M though so the grain isn't as good :-)

BTW, this is from the outside:
http://www.phototechmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/man_r_6.jpg

A silver print of that looks fabulous, it only took me 5 tries to get it
right :-)

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 11:17 PM, robert <pitbmail-lug at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> Thanks Bob.  The prints look less grainy than the scans (Costco did a
> decent job of printing and scanning).  I wanted to get as much shutter 
> speed
> as I could with the f4 lens.  So  I may still sell my 35-70 in favor of
> something faster so I can limit my film speed to 800 indoors.
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> Robert
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> --- On Sun, 12/12/10, Bob Adler <rgacpa at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> From: Bob Adler <rgacpa at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] de Young visit
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Sunday, December 12, 2010, 9:30 PM
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> Hi Robert,
> The images look surprisingly good to me. I like the grain and don't find it
> distracting. The fact that you have done no post processing indicates that
> the
> scans have enough information to reduce the grain as well as add vibrancy,
> if
> you wish. As Ansel said, the negative is the score; the print is the
> performance. You could put on a very nice performance with these.
> Best,
> Bob
> Bob Adler
> Palo Alto, CA
> http://www.rgaphoto.com
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> ________________________________
> From: robert <pitbmail-lug at yahoo.com>
> To: lug at leica-users.org
> Sent: Sun, December 12, 2010 9:07:33 PM
> Subject: [Leica] de Young visit
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> Hi Everyone,
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> Out of curiosity I decided to try 1600 iso film, but i'm not sure I like
> the
> grain and flatness.   They pics have minimal processing done after scanning
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> except for the last photo of the trees.  Any comments would be appreciated.
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/robert+a/SF+de+Young/
> Robert
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