Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] x-tol replacement: Rodinal
From: "Don R." <don.ro@verizon.net>
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 10:08:54 -0600
References: <000401c2f927$7ba7caf0$6401a8c0@YOURF68DMBR429>

Let me throw my 2 cents in.

It was always my experience that Rodinal, in any dilution, was a sure fire
grain enhancer while the Willi Buetler formula that is now TEC provided at
least equal resolution with less grain enhancement.

Don R.
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From: "Oliver Bryk" <oliverbryk@attbi.com>
To: "Users Group Leica" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 8:52 AM
Subject: [Leica] x-tol replacement: Rodinal


> Mark wrote:
> <snip>
> I started out with all my pals in the 70's going 1:100 and you get a
> glow in the highlights which is really nice.
> <snip>
> Some years ago I attended a workshop led by Huntington Witherill, one of
the
> well known West Coast landscape photographers. Among other things he
> described his choice of large format film (Agfapan 25 rated at ISO 10) and
> developer (Rodinal diluted 1:100). He liked to work with very contrasty
> images and his prints were absolutely stunning, partly because of their
long
> scale.
> Oliver Bryk
> PS for more about HW see
>
http://www.johnpaulcaponigro.com/dialogs/dialogs_n-z/huntington_witherill.ht
> ml
>
>
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Replies: Reply from Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> (Re: [Leica] x-tol replacement: Rodinal)
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