Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan Wajsman wrote: > > Thanks to Don and Mark and the others who contributed to the thread. > Spurred by it, I bought a couple of rolls of Neopan 1600 and shot them > (using EI 1600) at a Warhammer tournament my son was in on Sunday. I > developed the negatives in XTOL 1+3, 13 minutes at 20C/68F in my Jobo, > i.e. continuous agitation. I am now scanning them, and my experience is > exactly as Don describes: they look thin on the light table, but when I > see the scan (LS-2000), there seems to be much more detail in those > shadows than is the case with Delta 3200. I will experiment some more, > but it looks like I may be switching to this film for my high-speed needs. > > Nathan > >From my experience, Nathan it seems to me that you have properly exposed but slightly under developed negs. Just run it at 15 next time and your highlights should separate a bit better from your shadows then they are now. Its my opinion that when any exalted one or thing gives you a development time it is only a starting time for YOU. If your negs are printable from that first run then that's pretty good and actually I kind of expect at least that. But from that first batch you then adjust for your own darkroom set of variables: water temperature (thermometer) and impurities, agitation, global positioning and so on. Your darkroom and technique needs a different time usually by a minute or two or more. And after a week or so I'll end up tweaking the time again after I've had even more experience with the stuff. Again it's my experience that the Neopan is a half stop faster than the Delta. And for a bit less money. For once you don't get what you pay for. I love that. I've had this Neopan 1600 stuff in my street camera for most of a year or so and i no longer think of 1600 as high speed. I think of it as normal. I think of 400 as medium and 100 or 50 as slow. The results most would consider normal: Tri X in D76 1:1 is matched or surpassed my the Delta in Xtol 1:3. That's been my delightful experience. Hey we needed a break sometime! Oh Lord! Wont' you buy me Another couple of F stops. My freinds all use view cameras. I can not get enough! Mark Rabiner Portland, Oregon USA http://www.markrabiner.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html