Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Thought you gave up photography to be a lawyer????? I just expanded my options and made myelf a little more self-sufficient--I always felt bad when I had to call the newspaper's lawyer to get me out of trouble when I'd do something smart like get into a venue without a press pass. This way I can bail myself out. :) And believe me, I doubt I make more than you, though I sure work a helluva lot less! I, too, was printing some 11 x 14's this past weekend, which gave rise to my question. There's clearly an issue with getting more shadow detail, which I need to work on. But despite that issue, the prints didn't have the "feel" I wanted. They aren't grainy enough, for one, and they don't have the "soft" quality that old prints do. Having run the gambit from Nikon, Canon, Leica, and Contax, I've ruled out lenses as the cause of that quality (though I suppose that manufacturers use an entirely different process for glass making nowadays than they did in the first half of the century) and think that it must be the paper. I haven't tried the Agfa paper before, and shall give it a go. Thanks for the info. Frank _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com