Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> There is no Leica glow. So every receipt is right. Mr Johnstons advice to > use a low contrast about standard focal length lens, with a classic silver > rich film, overexpose by a stop, develop short, use a diffusion enlarger and > use FB paper and print with low contrast is a remarkable nonsensical piece > of > photographic technique. It will give you results that are as flat as some > scientists in the past thought about the radius of the earth. If this is the > essence of what a century of photographic research has come up, I welcome > the age of digital photography. That will be refreshing in the extreme. I'd be happy to provide you with a sterling, beautiful example, Erwin old boy. Just send me $350 American, and I'll mail you a print made with precisely the technique I described. As you'll see, it's gorgeous. If you were to allow yourself of a modicum of poetic license, you might even say it...glows. 316 Windsor Drive, Waukesha, WI 53186. Don't thank me. My pleasure. <g> - --Mike