Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]When I finally retire back to the home where I was raised, I have a relatively clean darkroom still in the garage where I built it (of 2x4's and masonite) back in 1968. Mom is currently using it for storage. Jeffery On Aug 26, 2010, at 6:25 PM, Richard Man wrote: > And as far as hobby go, one can do a lot worse than photography. > > On Aug 26, 2010 3:51 PM, "Jeffery Smith" <jsmith342 at gmail.com> wrote: >> I loved the appearance of Panatomic-X developed in Rodinal. I still like > the coal blacks of silver halide, and haven't been able to manipulate > digital camera images in PS to replicate that look. Now that I have only 2 > hair-shedding animals in the house (down from 7), I'm going to start > souping > film again. I trust that any pet hair that hasn't been vacuumed up with > stick to the emulsion of the first roll. >> >> Jeffery >> >> On Aug 26, 2010, at 4:27 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> >>> Trust me Jeffery I have long experience with Panatomic x it is my > signature >>> film. Panatomic in 35mm does not a Rolleiflex or Hasselblad make. >>> I had to prove that well known fact to myself before I started saving up > for >>> medium format systems. >>> The bottom line with film as well as digital capture is always going to > be >>> Real estate real estate real estate. >>> Acreage acreage acreage. >>> You can set your little format camera to iso 100 but as an image making > tool >>> a larger format camera is going to still blow it out of the water on a > slew >>> of accounts. >>> This is not my quirky opinion but the first thing anybody learns when > they >>> get into photography either in the classroom, in the real world, or > reading >>> a good photography book. The point in denying that is what? You don't get > to >>> play with little cameras? >>> >>> As far as this thread name goes... It is just as poorly thought out as > the >>> text which was under it. >>> 35mm is not "best" and I certainly never implied that and didn't see > anybody >>> else imply that. >>> What is "best" is not crippling yourself with a format smaller than >>> necessarily to get the shot done well. >>> >>> -------------------- >>> Mark William Rabiner >>> Photography >>> mark at rabinergroup.com >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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