Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com>wrote: >This: >http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Henley_Grange_Beach.jpg.html >is Tri-X exposed at EI100 and developed in Xtol to manage a 3-4 stop >wider luminance range than the film could handle at the higher CI that >would be given by ISO exposure and development - CI 0.62 or >thereabouts. Additional exposure is vastly less harmful to tonality >than decreased exposure, but it does decrease sharpnness and increase >grain. I don't mind losing a bit of both of them to get better >tonality. ================================================================================================== And how about this? Tri-X exposed at 32 ISO, then developed in Microdol-X: <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Portraits/Model_AMR.jpg.html> I do all my B&W film by inspection development. Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer UPAA POY 1978 University Information Technology Services University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee amr3 at uwm.edu http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/