Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: digital grain
From: "Joseph Codispoti" <joecodi@clearsightusa.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 17:32:47 -0700
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From: "Jim Brick" <jim@brick.org>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>; <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>


> The way you do it in film, using an enlarger, is rap your enlarger head
> with your hand during your exposure. The enlarger must shake for roughly
> 10% to 20% of the total exposure. This is called "shaking the grain out."
>
> Jim

I no longer have a darkroom. Instead of shaking the enlarger, I kick the
tripod during the exposure.

Joe

P.S.  Boris Dobro was Russian. He had the best 20x30 prints from Kodachrome
I have ever seen.



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