Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]LOL! That makes life pretty easy, huh? ;-) - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of B. D. Colen Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 12:19 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: RE: [Leica] If you had only one B&W film/developer combo, which would it be? Tri-X. Developed in what ever is on the shelf.;-) - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Nathan Wajsman Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 1:13 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] If you had only one B&W film/developer combo, which would it be? Ilford Delta 400 developed in XTOL 1+3. Nathan "Jeffery L.Smith" wrote: > If someone were to ask me for my recommendation for ONE GOOD SLOW > SLIDE FILM, I would probably blurt out "Velvia", and if I were asked > for ONE GOOD FAST C-41 COLOR FILM, I would probably blurt out "Fuji > Superia 800". > > I am going to focus this year's PAW on B&W images whenever possible. I > have been away from developing my own B&W film for 20 years, and many > of the films I used to prefer are no longer around. Also, there are > about 3x as many B&W films available now compared to then. XTOL is > also "new" to me. > > I would like to find one good predictable film and developer. If I > were to ask you for a recommendation for a B&W film and developer > combination with an E.I. Of 400 to 800 (+/- 200), what would you blurt > out? > > -- > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- 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