Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/03

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Dec National Geo...
From: "Apostolos Mamatas" <a_mamatas@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 17:38:09 -0500

>You might have a bad copy.
>Mine came out very nice, and the black and whites were
>very well done, I thought. Would like to know the
>film/developer combo's used to process the film, etc.
>Roger

I recieved a copy, and after examining it, would tend to agree with the 
general consensus in the group: it's not that good (technically). Especially 
disturbing is the way the highlights are all blocked up to the point of 
posterization. I would guess that if these photos waere indeed shot and 
processed in the traditional way (which I doubt), it looks a lot like a 
classic case of T-Max "split curves" . If they were "photoshoped" then the 
curves weren't corrected properly. One thing that I do like, however, are 
the midtones in these photographs--very nice.

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