Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/04

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Subject: [Leica] Lab vs. home processing
From: feli at creocollective.com (Feli di Giorgio)
Date: Sat Sep 4 06:33:32 2004
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On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 17:37, Mike Durling wrote:
> About 20 years ago while I was working for a summer theatre I used 
> replenished Microdol-X.  It seems to me I got the finest grain ever on 
> that generation of Tri-X, but when I looked at those negatives later 
> they wern't too sharp.  Can't swear it was the developer, but I suspect 
> it was.
> 
> Mike D

Oddly enough I had a similar experience with Nacco D76 1:1 and APX100. 
The grain was dissolved to the extend that the image appeared soft.
It probably didn't help that the picture was shot with a  Noctilux @ f1 
in a low contrast situation...shutter speed was high enough to allow for
a sharp image. Rodinal has become by developer of choice for these type
of films, but there are always exceptions. Plus-X with D76 1:1 and a 
Summicron-DR is magical.




Feli




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