Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I've been a T-max in D-76 photographer for forever from the looks of it, but no shame in changing. If you can get a hold of the March issue of Los Angeles Magazine, check out pages 85 and 91. Those were done with Agfa film in X-tol. I saw the originals before they were sent in, and wow, talk about resolution and contrast. The reproductions are relatively fatefull to the originals. Slobodan Dimitrov Douglas Cooper wrote: > > On 3/4/01 5:32 PM, Leica Users digest expressed the following: > > > I finally got some X-tol. Have yet to mix it. Did get Microphen too. A > > friend s'been banging my ear about it for the past year. She's an X-tol > > addict herself, by the way, and uses it primarily for portrait work with > > the Makro-Planar. > > > > Slobodan Dimitrov > > > > > > Mark Rabiner wrote: > > > > F Xtol 1:3 and be there! > > Okay, this is embarrassing -- akin to the English professor, in David > Lodge's novel, admitting to never having read Hamlet -- but I've really > never processed a roll of black and white film, not since I was about ten > years old. Yes, I've shot professionally for over a decade, but only this > year have I even *printed* my own work (and that in color, only). So, > pardon my rank ignorance (it's been pardoned before). I just went to B&H > and picked up all the bits and pieces I think I need. I already have a > "changing room," which I use to load 4x5 into film holders, so I figure I > can load the film into the reels in there. And I have a sink. This should > be all I need... > > I bought D-76, because every manual I've ever seen seems to discuss this > stuff. Now, here on the LUG, X-tol seems to be the drug of choice, and I'm > wondering if I'm just buying into the system that once pushed everybody > towards Kodak film: all the photography schools use it, therefor it's a > standard. Should I *start out* with X-tol? Am I going to have to climb the > learning curve all over again, once I get used to D-76, and switch? > > I'm basically a Tri-X kind of guy, who shoots the occasional roll of TMZ... > > > sheepishly yours, > > Douglas Cooper > http://www.dysmedia.com > > NO ARCHIVE