Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Rodinal is not the developer of choice for 400 speed films. It has no solvent to reduce grain. Your image exhibits the classic look of Tri-X in Rodinal: large, very sharp grain. You can easily oversharpen it and make it look rough. I like the look, but maybe it's not the best for feminine portraits. BTW, it's a very appealing portrait. Sam S Rafael Alday wrote: > Thank you Mark for your comments (more value comming from you). > I am not an expert about scanning and about almost anything. > I scanned the film with an Epson Perfection 2400 flat bed scanner using > "soft mask". Then I only used the filter "find borders". Nothing more. > Using the sharpening filter the picture look like this: > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1868885&size=lg > > TO ME, uglier than the previous one. I developed this Tri-X with Rodinal (my > preference is ID 11 or D76) but I had no time to prepare the developer so I > used Rodinal. With this combo, if I use the sharpening filter the picture > will have MUCH MUCH GRAIN looking like oversharpened. > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html