Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Greg: I try not to spend too much time trying different films. I tend to find ones that work for me and stick with them. When I try different films, I spend too much time on the technical side and not enough on the creative side. To a lot of people, the joy of photography is this technical stuff. To me it is taking the pictures and then printing them. Though adept in the processing of films, it is the taking of the pictures I enjoy the most. BTW, what did you think of the pictures? If you liked them, I must have used the right film ;-) I like and use Kodak films because they have such good support. I have never found this with the fuji films, though I do use a lot of Provia 100f lately. I had a problem with Provia 100f curling too much to go through my mounter and it took a week to get an answer from Fuji. With Kodak, their web site is so organized and up to date, the answer would have just come up in a query. With the Kodak films, you can buy them almost anywhere including the drugstore. When I need info on developing times, filtration, and etc, I can get it all on the Kodak web site in a matter of seconds or in the Kodak Data Guide. I have not found the Fuji support as good. It was impossible to get a data guide and when I finally got one after years of looking, and was a terse little book, nothing like Kodaks large data guide. Regards, Robert At 04:44 PM 2/15/2002 -0700, Greg J. Lorenzo wrote: >Hi Robert, > >You may want to try Fuji Acros (100 asa) and compare results. > >Regards, > >Greg > >Robert G. Stevens wrote: > >> >>One of Erwin Puts newsletters comments that Tmax 100 is the finest >>grained of the pictorial films. I am inclined to believe him. There >>were a few rolls of Tmax 100 on my shelf that I decided to try yesterday. >> >>I was off to shoot some more eagles, but it was too cold and the birds >>were in the woods up in the evergreens and out of range, rather than in >>the Elm trees and near the side of the road. I then decided to try some >>B&W with the M6 and M3 and shoot some snow scenes. A few of the results >>are at the page below. >> >>One thing I learned is the grain of the Tmax 100 is much finer than that >>of the Tmax 400 which I usually shoot. It also seems to be much harder >>on fixer. I develop in a Jobo and the fixer is used one shot. >>On the Tmax 100 negatives there were little spots where the base didn't >>clear. It looked like a lot of dust on the negatives when I scanned >>them. There were also larger spots near the sprockets where the >>negatives didn't clear. I am using an Agfa concentrate for fixer and I >>guess I will just have to mix it a little stronger for the Tmax >>films. Kodak warns that fixer exhausts quicker with Tmax. >> >>Comments are welcome on the images. They were shot with a 50mm >>Summicron, 35mm Summicron ASPH, and 24mm ASPH. I used yellow and red >>filters. The film was developed in Xtol 1:1. >> >>http://home.istar.ca/~robsteve/photography/BW.htm >> >>Regards, >> >>Robert >> >>-- >>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