Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Come and criticize by yourself :-)
From: henry <henry@henryambrose.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 11:27:31 -0600

Well,

I guess its time to reconsider all those fancy lenses and developers!

Xtol 1:3  -  Haaaaaaaaaaahhhh !!!!!!!!!!!!

Another reason to drink lots of beer!

Henry

>Here you have some bad seeds:
>
>http://www.geocities.com/stanislaw_stawowy/photos/pod.htm
>
>
>Technical details:
>1.) Development - all photos made on Neopan 400, my favourite 
>pellicola, developed in Urinol 1+1 for 2.5 hour.
>Agitated for first 5 minutes, then one minute every five
>minutes. Then washed. Many times, in fear of yellow stain.. :-)
>And no, you cannot buy Urinol. You have to prepare one by yourself..
>And, as I see from small grain and good tonality, Urinol
>is worth experimenting.
>
>2.) Camera. I stepped into a destroyed Canonet QL 17, ripped
>off lens, put into a Leica ScrewMount and even received
>nearly ideal rangefinder coupling (I used focusing part from
>dead Jupiter 12 2.8/35). As you see, this lens puts some
>_Other__Glass_ to shame.. :-)
>
>3.) One of photos (02.jpg/ 02a.jpg) was made at 1/4 sec handhold.
>I wouldn't even try it with modern SLRs.. :-)  
>happy looking. I was so lazy to make thumbs so you will
>weep in pointless anger when downloading these 100-200kB
>files by modem...
>-----                                
>                                St.
>                          VF750 - 'Corvus'
>                     (Stanislaw B.A. Stawowy)
>              http://www.geocities.com/Stanislaw_Stawowy
>  "Ladies and gentleman. There you have the first pimp slap of the year.  
>:-)"
>
>
>