Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 12/22/01 8:26 AM, J. Gilbert Plantinga at gilplant@hvc.rr.com wrote: > You're either dreaming or you have an incredible 'hit rate'. The only week > that I shot only one roll was week #2, and that is one of the weakest pages > on my site. It was just too damned cold to go out that week. Before my PAW > project I would shoot about a roll a week, now I'm up to about a dozen! > That's an AVERAGE week. WOAH...slow down there big guy ;) I'm trying to work UP TO a roll a week from a sad 1 a ...month, if that!!! The first big challenge will be getting my as* out from behind this monitor and SHOOT! As for my hit rate...well we won't get into that. I think we all have different ways of looking at the PAW and for different reasons. I have no problem getting into 'photo mode' when I go on a vacation. I prepare to shoot a lot (film and time) and usually come back with good results. It's the non-vacation time that needs work. I need to look for what is happening around me, here, where I'm at NOW. I didn't used to be this slack and lazy when I was learning back in the earlier years. It's time to refresh my mind on why I really enjoy photography... > Souping it yourself is the only way to go, and I'd shoot more color if I had > the facilities to process it (jobo?), but my 'darkroom' is a changing bag > and the kitchen sink. Hey !! That'd be my setup :) but no home color processing for me. > The big advantage is not the cost savings, but the > control and quality. I don't think any lab would be willing to go through > all the compensating agitation tricks I've been learning. I don't know any tricks but when I hear that the lab just has some guy processing my B&W by hand, I may as well just do it myself :) > a 50-roll box of HP5+ is $132 and a 5-liter package of Xtol is $6.99 at B&H. > Developer is about the only thing that gets cheaper and better at the same > time - dilute it 1:3 :) I still have a TON of B&W film here (outdated) that I was also going to donate to the HS... But I will need chemicals and containers. > I have the Leica 5x loop, which though it is expensive, has a really > great attachment that holds a strip of negatives perfectly flat, has a > little hole where you can see the frame numbers through the mask, and a > ground glass bottom so I can just hold the thing up to an ordinary light - > no light-box-crook-in-the-neck. It's really much easier to simply evaluate > the negatives than you think. That piece of Leica glass (actually Schneider, > I think) will outlast any scanner, high-end or cheap. I just got a Contax 5x loupe and can't (won't) spend another $200 for the 5x Leica. But the neg holder and ground glass on it sound neat. As for evaluating the negs. It's been so long... Previewing a neg is seeming foreign and be able to say 'could be good'. I'll see if I can dig through some old ones and start educating my eye to look negatively :) Thanks - -- John Chicago, IL http://SlideOne.com ==================== > > Good on you for committing to a PAW 2002. My own project has been like > getting an MFA and turned me into an aspiring but broke pro. It changed my > life. > > Gilbert > > -- > 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