Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jeff Moore offered some wonderful sage commentary most of these young guys haven't got a clue about! Love it, been there and done it! Love ya guy for bringing this kind of stuff to the front page! :-) :-) jeeeeeeeeeesus life was like that some times when the heat was on and it was the only way to go to make the pictures happen!! :-) Look you guys and gals read this carefully cause that's the kind of stuff we did to make the world go around photographically! To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 4:30 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Looking back ... > 2004-04-29-16:42:27 B. D. Colen: > > God, that is a butt-ugly grain pattern! :-) But when you absolutely had > > to get the shot and there wasn't enough light to get it - recording film > > came through almost every time. > > Ah, the days before off-the-shelf good fast film... Something I seem > to recall having used a few times was something nominally 400ish (so > presumably Tri-X) pushed to 3200+ and developed in, wait for it, > HC-110 replenisher. I was assured that it was "an old > photojournalist's trick." I didn't know any old photojournalists at > the time, though. > > Oh, and when we actually *wanted* as much grain as possible, there was > the trick of developing Tri-X in Dektol. Whoa. Great snowy blizzards > of grain. Kinda nice looking, though. > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >