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Subject: [Leica] Technical Troubles--Need Your Suggestions
From: philippe.amard at tele2.fr (Philippe AMARD)
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 21:37:49 +0200
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I would agree with Doctor George,
my first reaction - not having seen the negs - was this shutter is 
playing a trick on him.
Ph


George Lottermoser wrote:

> 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
> george at imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com/blog
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>
> 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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In reply to: Message from jshul at comcast.net (Jim Shulman) ([Leica] Technical Troubles--Need Your Suggestions)
Message from imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser) ([Leica] Technical Troubles--Need Your Suggestions)