[Leica] Nathan's PAD 23/11/2023: Eri on film

[Douglas Barry]

Two lovely high key shots of the photogenic Eri, Nathan
Douglas


On 01/12/2023 06:47, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> I have recently been testing various films with the Adox HR developer. I like that developer because of convenience: the dilutions are very high, like 1:30 or 1:40 depending on the film, and you only prepare what you need that day. This eliminates the problem I have with powder developers like D76, which have to be mixed to produce 1 liter of stock solution which has only limited shelf life, so I end up wasting a lot of developer. With the Adox, I do not have this problem. It is a liquid developer in a small bottle (100 ml) and keeps very well.
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> Last week the film I tested was Fuji Acros, shot in my Leica M2 and 50mm Summilux. I did a photo session with Eri, my favourite subject, who is a big aficionado of her fellow Greek Maria Callas, and she adopted a couple of poses frequently used by Callas.
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> Apparently this one is a classic Callas pose:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-WKRgn9n/A
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> This is just Eri smiling:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-ScMR9F7/A
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> The following day we had the last-Friday-of-November drinks, and I used the same camera on our new trainees. They love the pictures. Somehow, people really respond differently when they see these film photos, shot with a camera and lens that were produced well before they were born (my M2 is from 1966 and the Summilux I used from 1961).
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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