Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim: Used the AGFA portrait 160 twice. Last summer at a family reunion and last week to take some pictures of a student that is staying with my parents. She wanted some pictures of herself and her boyfriend to give away at Christmas. Both times the results were great. As I have said in the past, why use a high contrast and saturated film with contrasty and saturated Leica glass. Save that for the Nikon glass ;-) I actually ended up making the prints of the the young couple. They had to leave to go home last Friday and we only shot the pictures on that Tuesday. It was almost impossible to get enlargements done, so I ended up buying a box of 11X14 paper and the RA4 chemicals. Did the enlargements on my Jobo and they came out great. Very fine grain for a film this fast. Nice skin tones as well. Their favorite picture was taken with a Noctilux. I shot two rolls, one in the M6 with the Noctilux and the other in an R8 with a 90mm Elmarit and fill flash. It was may first foray into printing from colour negatives but by three test prints, the color was dialed into my analyser and I just used it for the rest. I made about a dozen 11X14 in about four hours. It was all very cheap for the paper and chemicals. About $75 in all for fifty sheets and the chemicals. The paper I used was a Fuji low contrast portrait paper. It was on sale because Fuji in their environmental wisdom used unbleached paper for the boxes and all of they had gotten mouldy in the fridge at the dealers. I would also like to wish everybody a merry Christmas. For those of you that had asked, my wife was due to give birth on Christmas day. No sign of labour yet. It may be a New Years baby instead. The luggage and camera bag is packed and waiting. I am bring an M6, Tmax 400, Tmax P3200, and E200. If I have time after the birth, I will post a web page with the results. Merry Christmas Robert Stevens At 10:19 AM 12/25/98 -0800, you wrote: >I have been using Agfa Portrait since it came out, many many years ago. I >think it is the best print film available. I have been telling the LUG >about it for two years and have never heard a word back about it. Oh >well!!! I use it when I need prints, as I guess you do. My daughter took >both Royal Gold 200 and Agfa 160 on our Europe trip. The difference was >incredible. The Agfa Portrait 160 wins hands down. > >Jim > > >At 11:37 PM 12/24/98 +0000, you wrote: >>Thanks, Peter, for the film advice... although it wasn't me who was >>looking for advice I'll gladly take it :-). I'd been meaning to try >>Portra anyway - after hearing both generous praise and heartfelt >>condemnation of these emulaions, I knew they'd be interesting to >>actually use ;-). >> >>BTW, have you tried the Agfa 160? To me this film was a revelation. >> >>Best regards, >> >>Alexey >>.......................................................................... >>Alexey Merz | URL: http://www.webcom.com/alexey | email: alexey@webcom.com >> | PGP public key: http://pgp5.ai.mit.edu/ | voice:503/494-6840 >> | ...A democracy becomes hopelessly weak. and the general good >> | suffers accordingly, if its higher officials, bred up to >> | despise it, and necessarily drawn from those very classes >> | the dominance of which it is pledged to destroy, serve it >> | only half-heartedly.... - Marc Bloch, 1940 >> > > > >