Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Just anything: different film formats, color and b/w, and for dynosaurs like me - different light sources in enlarger heads - etc., etc. Martin More than one enlarger in a darkroom for different film formats. The V35 only does enlargements from 35 mm or smaller negatives (Minox I believe?). Regards, Greg J. Lorenzo Calgary, Alberta "Nguyen, Olivier T [AMSTA-AR-CCF]" wrote: > > Hi Marc, > can you tell me why do you have more than one enlarger in your darkroom ? > is there any trick to perform ? I want to learn that trick. Please, I am > not try to make fun of you or anything. I just try to see what you do with > more than 1 enlarger that is all. I just want to learn new thing. > > I right now have 1 enlarger in my room and still litlle by little learn to > developt the film and the print correctly here. I am a fresh newbie of > darkroom so I did not see much of thing yet specially the tonal change in > slightly and I still make a lot of mistake such as little too dark for skin > tones etc. > > Yes, darkroom is fun. taking picture without developt and print already > kill 80% of the fun. > > I try color one time by developt the film and print but not 100% success > yet. I will try again. Can anyone here point me to any website or any > place beside library that show me how to developt the color. I follow some > guide line of our member here and I fail in the first time. don't know what > going on. Probably the temperature is not correctly control > > Olivier > > -----Original Message----- > From: Marc James Small [mailto:msmall@roanoke.infi.net] > Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 11:08 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us; rollei@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: [Leica] DARKROOM II > > Well, I made it tonight, for a couple of hours, the first time in the > darkroom in 18 months or two years or somesuch. I now have both my Beseler > 23CII (with my new 2.8/50 APO-Rodagon) and my Leitz V35 side-by-side, a > rather chummy arrangement. > > I had to relearn working in the dark, which is always mildly frustrating, > but old habits come back readily. My stock of Ilford MGIV glossy paper was > a bit heat-struck but not terminally so. (I did get my supply box out of > the freezer to stock up again tomorrow with fresh stuff.) I thought the > V35 had lost its auto-focus but, after futilizing a bit at trying to adjust > it, I realized I wasn't locking the negative carrier in, and then all was > well. > > I had a couple of recent rolls to print, both 100 Delta. One taken with a > Werra III (2.8/50 CZJ Tessar and 4/35 Flektogon), the other with a Contarex > Cyclops (4.5/21, 4/35, 2/50, 4/135, 13/400). The first roll was souped in > Rodinal, the second in Ifosol. The paper was souped in Dektol, > incidentally. > > A pleasant evening printing rather mediocre pictures on perishing paper. > One shot was nice enough that I broke out a sheet of my all-too-small > reserve of that magnificent ORWO semi-matte fiber monograde paper, the > stuff to die for. > > I still do not understand how a serious student of photography can really > learn the art of taking pictures without doing at least occasional darkroom > work. > > The APO-Rodagon-N, incidentally, is cleanly and clearly superior to the > Focotar-WA, as Erwin hinted it might be. I now need to find a 75mm > APO-Rodagon-N to replace my 4/80 Beseler-HD for MF work, but these guys are > hard to find without buying new. I'd replace the Focotar with an > APO-Componon if I could find one used but these puppies NEVER seem to > appear on e-Bay. (The APO-Componon is a 40mm lens, incidentally, meaning > its a plug-in replacement for the Focotar; the APO-Rodagon is a 50mm lens.) > > Marc > > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir! > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html