Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Don, Really well done on two counts: first, to salvage and scan such a grossly underexposed film to produce a good image; and second, to capture the scene like this--I really like the motion blur on the man leaving the donut shop, he is in a hurry as if he cannot wait to get home (or, this being Atlanta, to his car...) to sink his teeth into the contents of the box. Nathan Don Dory wrote: > This morning I went to the Krispy Kreme on Ponce. What a comedy of errors. > I thought that I had loaded Delta 400 and set the EI at 400. Well, after > shooting two frames and thinking the exposures were excessive I checked and > sure enough I had set for 800. Not too bad. When I rewound and pulled the > film it was Delta 100. > > Oh joy, a three stop push. So, down to the darkroom, Xtol at 1:3, and > thirty minutes in the developer. Normal time for the push is 24.5 minutes > plus 20% for agitation only every three minutes. > > The picture isn't great, but I am impressed with the tonality and grain for > this film/exposure combination. > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=699488 > > Don > dorysrus@mindspring.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch mobile: +41 78 732 1430 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