Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Let me throw my 2 cents in. It was always my experience that Rodinal, in any dilution, was a sure fire grain enhancer while the Willi Buetler formula that is now TEC provided at least equal resolution with less grain enhancement. Don R. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Oliver Bryk" <oliverbryk@attbi.com> To: "Users Group Leica" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 8:52 AM Subject: [Leica] x-tol replacement: Rodinal > Mark wrote: > <snip> > I started out with all my pals in the 70's going 1:100 and you get a > glow in the highlights which is really nice. > <snip> > Some years ago I attended a workshop led by Huntington Witherill, one of the > well known West Coast landscape photographers. Among other things he > described his choice of large format film (Agfapan 25 rated at ISO 10) and > developer (Rodinal diluted 1:100). He liked to work with very contrasty > images and his prints were absolutely stunning, partly because of their long > scale. > Oliver Bryk > PS for more about HW see > http://www.johnpaulcaponigro.com/dialogs/dialogs_n-z/huntington_witherill.ht > ml > > > -- > 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