[Leica] Black and White

[Gary Klein <leicaman_99@yahoo.com>]

And unfortunately the talents of many of the young
guys who are doing all this electronic stuff will wake-up too late!

Yes ted you are right.

I just came back from Door County Wisconsin where I shot nothing but Tmax 
100 and Tmax 400.  Shot five rolls.  Not bad for just one day out in the 
field for me.  I don't often get a chance to shoot photos for me.  Since I 
shoot nothing but color color color all the time at work, its so fun to 
shoot black and white.  But my next adventure is to get my temperature 
control tub up and running so I can properly process the film.  I found 
that 75 degrees F is the perfect temp to process Tmax films with. From my 
experience it seems as if it doesn't handle low temps well.  But as long as 
you know what you need to do it is not a problem.

I am working on a personal body of work with the advent of my inlaws moving 
up there.  I can do nature studies that I have always wanted to do.  No 
sense just talking about it, just do it.  I don't care if no one wants to 
buy them, its more for my personal pleasure.  But I think a couple 100 
footers need to be bought as I don't like paying for the factory 
loads.   It will be awhile before I print any, but I definitely want to 
fire up the darkroom again.  I may scan a few in to see proofs of my work, 
but I do want to print a bunch.

But have spent so many years earlier in my career in the black and white 
darkroom, I truly think photography has lost some of its edge with the 
heavy emphasis on color and digi photography.   Anyway, ted you are right.

gck