Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm getting very nice results with Fuji Acros. For some reason, nobody else seems to be warming up to that film. Jeffery Smith New Orleans, LA http://www.400tx.com -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Ridings Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 1:18 AM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] So long Rodinal. I'm going to miss you. Fomapan 200 is pretty close, but only close. There _is_ nothing else like APX100. It was too special. But Fomapan 200 is a very close second. Ilford FP4+ is a beautiful film too. Daniel On 3/15/06, feli <feli2@earthlink.net> wrote: > > On Mar 14, 2006, at 6:51 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote: > > > Give the communist version a try (from J&C Photo) or try the > > Photographer's Formulary generic version. I think Rodinal + Acros > > might be a winner. > > > Finding a stock that is similar to APX100 is the biggest challenge of > this equation. It really was beautiful stuff, very 'creamy'. The tonal > range that it was able to capture > just seemed to go on forever. > > I'll have to try some Plus-X and Hp4+ in Rondinal and see what it > looks like. > > A few years ago I used to soup Plus-X in D76. It had a little more > bite than APX100, but I'll also produced great results. > > > feli > > > ________________________________________________________ > feli2@earthlink.net 2 + 2 = 4 > www.elanphotos.com > > > NO ARCHIVE > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information