Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/07

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Subject: [Leica] Agfapan 400
From: marko1976 at excite.com (marko1976@excite.com)
Date: Fri Jan 7 18:05:41 2005

Hi Daniel,

I've been around for awhile, I don't post much. Thanks for your samples. 
Have you ever developed APX 400 in D-76 1+1? I don't want golf ball gain, 
but something with character and tone.

Thanks 
Marko Mihailovich




 --- On Fri 01/07, Daniel Ridings < daniel.ridings@edd.uio.no > wrote:
From: Daniel Ridings [mailto: daniel.ridings@edd.uio.no]
To: lug@leica-users.org
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 22:24:14 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Re: [Leica] Agfapan 400

Marko, I don't know if we've met. I've been out of the loop a few 
weeks.<br>My name is Daniel Ridings. I didn't catch your last 
name.<br><br>I've some experience with the 
film:<br><br>http://www.dlridings.com/paw2003/34.html 
(Rodinal)<br>http://www.dlridings.com/paw2003/35.html (Rodinal)<br><br>In a 
situation more like you speak 
of:<br><br>http://www.dlridings.com/paw2003/37.html (Rodinal)<br><br>The new 
version of APX (and that is what you will have) really wants to<br>stay 
around at EI 400 and nothing 
else:<br><br>http://www.dlridings.com/paw2004/49.html All at EI 800 in 
Xtol.<br><br>Bottom line ... Agfa APX doesn't really deserve its reputation 
for being a<br>grainy film. You can get wonderful tones out of it and it 
really resists<br>blocking up in the highlights, but the whole tonal range 
gets pretty<br>compressed when you fool around with it.<br><br>If you want 
grain like golf balls, go with Tmax 3200.<br><br>Daniel 
Ridings<br><br><br>On Fri, 7 Jan 2005,  wrote:<br><br>><br>> Anyone have 
experience with this film? I'm going to be shooting a punk band in low 
light, a real raw atomosphere and I want grain. What developer have you used 
with it? Pushed it?<br>><br>> Thanks for your insight,<br>><br>> 
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