Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/06

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Black and white -- point me in the right direction
From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 22:08:06 -0700
References: <200105061956.PAA23277@tigercat.pwj.com>

At 11:50 PM 5/6/01 -0400, Derek Zeanah wrote:
>Broke away from B&W after losing my darkroom -- I've been using a lot of
>color slide as you don't need a darkroom to produce the final images...
>
>Anyway, I really miss B&W and I've found that B&W slides just aren't the
>same.  I'm looking out there and seeing more options that I used to.  Used
>to be, I'd shoot Delta 100 and HP5+ (depending on available light, pushing
>HP5+ is necessary) and develop in XTOL.  It worked well -- I had one 30x40
>printed from a Delta 100 neg that would blow your mind as it shouldn't have
>been possible -- but I'm not entirely happy with the combination.
>
>I'm looking for guidance.


Go here:


http://thzig.freeyellow.com/

and get the darkroom of your dreams...

:)

Jim