[Leica] (no subject)

[Ted Grant]

Hi Frank,
I always used the correct film as it made picture taking and quality perfect prints every time. But then my assignments were all shot by AVAILIBLE LIGHT!! 
Well first of all if you can see it (the subject) you can shoot it! Oh sure the odd time the ASA was 1600, but who cared! Like I said >>>> "IF YOU CAN SEE THE SUBJECTS IN A "STEEL MILL?"
What the heck at ASA 1600 and LEICA glass wide open it was a piece of cake!
You see, in my 65 plus years of assignments about the world from birth to death you had to come home with photos! GOOD ONES and no sick assed excuses after developing the film? 
If the images weren't any good that could very well be your last assignment for a very well paying client. MY GOOD FORTUNE?   "it never happened!"  :-)
My shooting attitude toward gear, film, printing etc? "was always "KISS!"
"" KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID!"  KISS  :-)
And in all those years from 27 May 1950 when my dearest wife put the first camera in my hands as a birthday gift until to this day I never had a client dump me as one of their trusted photographers. Today with the NATIONAL ARCHIVES of CANADA having a personal collection of 200,000 images of captured life moments. Plus something like another 100,000 images in the NATIONAL GALLERY. 
I can only offer my success to that sweet little word and the actions of it. "KISS!" :-)
CHEERS EVERY ONE,
Dr. ted grant O.C.

tedgrantphoto.com
(have a look) :-)









-----Original Message-----
From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Frank Farmer
Sent: February-21-18 6:46 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] (no subject)

LOVED Plus-X. Always preferred it to Tri-X. Does that make me some sort of weirdo?

Frank F. Farmer
Jackson, Mississippi 

> On Feb 21, 2018, at 8:25 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
> 
> I shot a ton of 220 Plus X in my studio and sometimes on location with my Hasselblads but sometimes twin lens Rolleiflex.
> It was Avedon's film as choice I've learned for black and white.
> For 35mm though I'd use tab grain films for mid speed films.. Delta 100, T Max 100. I settled into Neopan Acros 100,
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Mark William Rabiner
> Photographer
> 
> On 2/19/18, 4:28 PM, "LUG on behalf of Alan Magayne-Roshak" <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of amr3 at uwmalumni.com> wrote:
> 
>    On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>wrote:
> 
>> I pulled two B&W images from my archives as a part of a discussion with
>> Jim Shulman about early Kodak Plus-X film.?
>> ...
>> ...
> 
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20070711-
>    jaycee+pancake.JPG.html
>    <http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20070711-jaycee+pancake.JPG.html>
> 
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20070712-
>    Tullahoma+Jaycees+Pancake+Breakfast+07+54.JPG.html
>    <http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20070712-Tullahoma+Jaycees+Pancake+Breakfast+07+54.JPG.html>
> 
>> Jim also has a photo of Aunt Jemima at a promotional event that same year.
> 
>> Comments and critiques welcomed and appreciated.
> 
>    --
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>    =============================================================================================
>    Thanks for showing us.  I love looking at old film pictures.
> 
>    -- 
>    Alan
> 
>    Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
>    University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
>    (Retired)
>    UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978
>    UPAA Master of the Profession 2014
>    amr3 at uwm.edu
>    http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/
> 
>    "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate
>     for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt
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