Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] How'd they do that?
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 15:11:47 -0500

Roy Feldman wrote:
> 
>  The highlights in the photos are a pure white, then a real drop
> in density with the shadows being dark but with detail discernable. 
>

When I visited Tom A in Vancouver recently, and we were looking
at pictures in magazines and books, every now and then I'd come across a
picture with those tonal qualities.  Every time, I would throw my arms up
in dispair and ask incredulously "How do you *get* tonal qualities like
that?"

Tom's answer was always the same: "Potassium ferrocyanide"

:)

M.

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