Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I just realized this GLOW thread is inconsiderate of the Piezo printing crowd. What with no chance to experiment with old Focomats and Kodak Flourlite enlargers, exotic fiber papers, or early issue enlarging lenses they must feel just left out. Won't some creative programmer develop a plug-in for Photoshop that provides a menu of new filters to recreate those glowing days of yesteryear? Luggers can suggest their favorite filters. For starters, I suggest "gUR-Lieca", "Red Dial", "Early HCB", "Zeiss HCB", " Uncoated Ortho Brovira", and "Erwin's Nightmare" (a.k.a. 20 year old Pentax). Meanwhile, I intend to put Mike's formula for glow to the test. Out in the garage I actually have a binder full of negatives decades old shot on Plus-X, with a yellow filter, at ASA 64, developed in D-76 1:1. And, they were shot with a Spotmatic using the recommended 55mm/1.8 lens as well as a CZ Jena 25/4. (I hope I fixed them long enough to be printable today.) Further, Lawlor's Museum of Forgotten Photographica( a.k.a. my darkroom) includes working examples of 1937 Valoy, 1930's Leitz VAROB enlarging lens, ditto Zeis uncoated Componon, 1937 Focomat, 1948 Kodak Flourlite A coldlite enlarger, and a 1957 Beseler 45 with a difusion head. Agfa, Ilford, Kodak, Forte and Cachet FB papers are in modest supply together with a fresh bottle of Agfa Neutol. My work is cut out, but, heck, I'm a History teacher and I love the past. Will any Lugger offer webspace to display the results? Bill Lawlor p.s. I just remembered, some of those old Pentax lenses were made with RADIOACTIVE GLASS! Maybe that's where the glow came from?