Re: [Leica] deserve to be green

["Mike Durling" <durling@widomaker.com>]

B.D.
I think your memory is better than mine.  It was about 25-30 years ago when
I experimented with pushing film and the like.  I can't remember what I
used.  I know it wasn't diafine but maybe I tried Acufine.  I know that I
did use a lot of 2475 recording film.  Talk about grain!  Ah the good old
days. . .
Mike D

- -----Original Message-----
From: B. D. Colen <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 12:29 PM
Subject: RE: [Leica] deserve to be green


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>> B.D.
>> The lore from 20 years ago had it that Acufine would push
>> Tri-X to 1200 ASA
>> (not ISO back then!) and that Diafine would do about 2400.  I
>> never tried
>> them myself. Maybe somebody else around here has.  Might be
>> fun to compare
>> with modern soups.
>> Mike D
>>
>Mike, I hate to make myself sound like an Alzheimer's patient....What I do
>remember of my introduction to the darkroom about 38 years ago was using
>Diafine and Acufine and having a mentor about 3 years older than I - he had
>a IIIc with a Canon 50 1.8 - whose goal was to push Tri-X into the
>stratosphere, ending up with grain like sea-shells. I remember using both
>Acufine and Diafine to push with, and seem to recall the 800-1200 range
with
>one, and up to about 3200 with the other...but I don't remember which was
>which...and I certainly wouldn't recommend the radical pushing unless
>someone's life or livelihood absolutely depended on it..;-)
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