Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, as a matter of fact, I used a tripod rated for up to 30 lbs, it's a Benro knock off of Gitzo. Carbon fiber that I can carry up and down cliffs and long hikes. In fact, many of the water image, including the first one on the most recent blog posts are... 8 second exposure or more, with a ND filter. I am glad that my techniques are validated by you :-) I shoot Tri-X because I like the look. Acros 100 is fine too. I'd say I shoot 90% Tri-X and 8% Acros. Acros sometimes looks a bit too clean for my taste. On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > Try putting your medium format or Xpan camera on a Gitzo carbon fiber > tripod > with a nice cable release and shoot Delta 100 or Neopan Acros and shoot > them > at 100. > The film I did most my medium format landscapes with and I did quite a bit > as Pan F 50 rated at 50. But the medium speed (100) tab grain films are > pretty good. Maybe as good. > If it was me though I'd shoot Fuji Neopan Acros which may not be a tab > grain > film but which looks better than Delta anyway. > > http://www.fujifilmusa.com/products/professional_photography/film/neopan_bla > ck_white/100_acros/index.html > Or > http://tinyurl.com/ye5egh8 > > You'd think a tripod would slow you down but you'd be wrong shooting > landscapes they speed you up. You have your hands freed and you can think. > Take readings with a hand held meter or spot meter. > I've found the rocks and trees seldom make a break for it. > Just get a good ball head anything fast breaking you'll be able to get. > The 100 speed films in general make the 400 speed films look very dull. > And are so much sharper its not even funny. They blow up many times better. > Its hard to judge the grain quality becuae you'll never see it without a > powerful magnifier. > > That's how work such as yours is normally done. > Hand holding shots of trees and rocks and water is ridiculous if its medium > format. > Even using a nice ball head with an M9 and Leica glass at the minimum iso > or > pull setting would be bound to be revelatory. > > > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > From: Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> > > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2011 22:01:39 -0700 > > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Ten new film images from the Netherlands > > > > Those are 35mm Tri-X but on the XPan, i.e. 24mmx65mm. A couple of the > recent > > posts were on the Shen Hao 617 but the majority of the images you see on > my > > blog are 35mm Tri-X film. I rate them at ISO 250 or 320, develop with > Xtol > > 1+1 using the Jobo. > > > > Xtol 1+1 gives me the most flexibility with my Jobo tanks - I can develop > > one roll or up to five rolls using that ratio. If I use 1+2, then I can > only > > do one to three rolls. > > > > On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > wrote: > > > >> I click on where to see a tri x landscape image? > >> If your using tri x for medium format landscapes you're not exactly in > the > >> inner loop. > >> > >> > >> Mark William Rabiner > >> > >> > >> > >>> From: Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> > >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > >>> Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2011 20:42:46 -0700 > >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Ten new film images from the Netherlands > >>> > >>> Mark, I shot about 60 rolls of Tri-X so far this year. So I'm not > >> entirely, > >>> pardon the expression, talking out of my...hat. I know lately that you > >> are > >>> on a LUG Gallery kick, but if you bother to click on my links, you will > >> see > >>> many samples. At 1100 pixels across, they are not too small either. > >>> > >>> It's definitely true that once scanned and photoshopped, lots of things > >> are > >>> equalized. When they make a Digital Xpan, I'd be the first to get it. > >>> > >>> Until then, it's Tri-X for me, with an occasionally Acros 100 or > >> Neopan-1600 > >>> thrown in. > >>> > >>> On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>>> That's that quaint expression "There's nothing like a good Tri-X" used > >>>> with > >>>> slight irony a wink wink and we wonder what gets communicated. An > >> element > >>>> of > >>>> truth in that statement or just whimsy? > >>>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> > >>> // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.com/blog/> > >>> // richard's personal photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> > >>> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all > >> previous > >>> replies in your msgs. ] > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Leica Users Group. > >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> > > // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.com/blog/> > > // richard's personal photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> > > [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all > previous > > replies in your msgs. ] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.com/blog/> // richard's personal photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous replies in your msgs. ]