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Subject: [Leica] Technical Troubles--Need Your Suggestions
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 14:18:54 -0500
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If the negatives are as radically different as the scans indicate
and you absolutely trust your meter.
You've got a shutter problem or you're forgetting to stop down the lens.

or

if the two negatives appear reasonably close in scale
you've got some scanning issues

Regards,
George Lottermoser
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On May 11, 2009, at 8:16 AM, Jim Shulman wrote:

> I've been having VERY erratic results with my recent processing of  
> T-Max
> 100.
>
>
>
> I've used exactly the same the same film, developing regimen,  
> camera, and
> exposure meter (the latter two perform flawlessly with K64, so I know
> they're accurate).
>
>
>
> Yet within a frame of each other I get this:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/focusit/test+shots/
>
>
>
> Navy sm. Came out fine, yet Dog Picture sm was a disaster.  Both were
> optimized in photoshop to bring out the best from the initial scans- 
> Navy
> needed only tiny touch-ups, yet Dog Picture was hopeless.
>
>
>
> Any ideas?  It's a bit like Russian Roulette when I'm shooting.
>
>
>
> Jim
>
>
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Replies: Reply from philippe.amard at tele2.fr (Philippe AMARD) ([Leica] Technical Troubles--Need Your Suggestions)
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