Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 22:15:55 -0400 > From: "Don Dory" <dorysrus@mindspring.com> > Subject:Was Re: [Leica] Why is the lowest shutter speed on a Leica M6 1/1000? > snip... > I think that with a little more trial and much more error I will have times > for Acros so that in really bright light I pull it down to 32 or so which > will also flatten the contrast at the expense of some more grain. > snip... > Don Dory > dorysrus@mindsrping.com I've had good results exposing Tri-X at 32 ISO (really!) and developing in Microdol-X full strength for about 8 min. (I develop by inspection, so I don't always look at the clock when I take the film out; it gets fixed when it looks right) Tri-X overexposed and processed in Microdol gives me really creamy, fine grained images, and the contrast is fine. I've made 16x20's that people say look like slow film. Alan Magayne-Roshak Senior Photographer Univ. of Wis.-Milwaukee Photo Services amr3@uwm.edu 229-4282 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html