Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark- I have heard of the Dignan book but I don't have it- yet! Sounds like a good reference. Thanks for the tip- I'll check the PF website and see if I can get a copy. I am completely self taught, and had read the cover off of C.B. Neblettes book. It had been given to me by an ex-brother-in-law who had it at UNC-Chapel Hill for a textbook in a course he took. Great book, and I've yet to find anything close for explaining the chemistry and physics behind the photographic process. I sure wish it wasn't out of print!. Sounds interesting, and I might like to try this formula out- I started mixing my own when I got a beam balance and found a slew of formulas in my father's old Physics and Chemistry Handbook from 1947!... back in 1967! Like you I always graduated back to Rodinal- usually 1/25 or 1/50 and unlike you I always seemed to gravitate back to D-76, replenished, as well. And I of course used Diafine in the summers before air conditioning! I never was so much concerned with grain as I was with composition. I knew I couldn't match Adam's work with a 35 or 6x6, so I never really tried, although I saw some stuff done in the 80's by a friend who used Tech-Pan and I think Ethol TEC to get some pretty incredible 24x32 prints... They DID look like they were taken with a view camera, but it was with a Leica and 35 Summicron! dwpost@msn.com