Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'd like to thank Laurent Saminadayar for his informative, entertaining, and detailed post. I'm sure it will generate questions from many of us, and I'd like to post mine here so any reply can be shared with all. When looking at original prints of Cartier-Bresson's (at A Gallery for Fine Photography on Royal St. in New Orleans--a wonderful place if you ever visit) I noticed that although they were enlarged quite a bit (16x20"), the grain was soft and hardly noticeable. Is this just a result of the particular paper and enlarger used (the Omega?--with what lens?) or is there a technique employed to smooth out the grain? Secondly, I'm sure we'd all like to hear a little more about the exposure and development of Tri-X. Is the film treated as 400 ASA and underexposed by a 1/2 or whole stop? Or is it found to be closer to 200 ASA in your experience and exposed as if it were 400 ASA? For development what developer/time/temp/agitation are used? Any such details will be of great interest. Thanks again for taking the time to write about these things. I hope your WE has been or is enjoyable. -Charlie Charles E. Dunlap Earth Sciences Dept. University of California Santa Cruz, CA 95064