[Leica] Having fun with Jenga

[jorg.willems at pp.inet.fi (Jörg Willems)]

I appreciate that very much, Daniel!

First, I should have told my wife that I pushed the film. My wife used to do
all development when we had our wedding photo business and usually we had
much better results using TMAX 400 and 3200.  These are the first films that
she has ever developed in Finland and there are few things different here:
  The water is much harder then it uses to be in Atlanta, GA, where we used
to live the last 25 years.
  We bought the chemical (D76 and not DC70, sorry) from a small photo dealer
in the next town (Valkeakoski) and it could be sitting there for over 10
years on the shelf.  On the bottom of the can is the number:  22503 93.
  A new scanner (Epson 4180), although based on this picture:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/album166/Katerma_Island_scr the scanner
should not be the culprit.

In two weeks I will travel to Helsinki and I should be able to get Xtol.

I used to able to handhold 1/15 sec with 50 mm lens but I'm afraid I can't
do that anymore.  I tried that with our digital camera and most of them
where blurred.  I must be getting old.

Thank you for your advice and your pictures are lovely!
 
Best Regards
J?rg

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jorg.willems=pp.inet.fi@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jorg.willems=pp.inet.fi@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Daniel Ridings
Sent: 31. tammikuuta 2005 12:08
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Having fun with Jenga

J?rg,

If you want Tmax at faster speed without a lot of grain, definitely try
Xtol 1:1. You can expose and develop for EI 3200 before you get that kind
of grain.

http://www.dlridings.com/paw2004/38.html

At EI 1600 you can't tell too much at all:

http://www.dlridings.com/paw2005/3.html

I ran out of Tmax this week, and so did the store. So my shots from this
week are with HP5 at 1600. Otherwise, Tmax is really a fine film all
around. Both in normal situations and when the light is playing hard to
get.

I ran out of Xtol this week too. But the first shot is still with Tmax,
"exposed" at 800 in D76 1:1.

I say "exposed" because in situations like this I think: "What can you
hand-hold ... 1/15, ok 1/15 wide-open". Not much real metering involved.

Best,
Daniel

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, J?rg Willems wrote:

> In the last week of December we met with a bunch of friends in Tampere,
> Finland, to play Jenga.  In December the sun rises in Tampere at 9:43 AM
and
> sets at 3:07 PM.  There was not much light and I shot everything with
> Noctilux wide open, TMAX 400 pushed to 800 (and forgot to tell my wife who
> did the development with DC70 for me).  I am amazed how much grain the
> pictures have but it doesn't really bother me that much.  I scanned them
all
> with 3200 dpi, 16 bit Grayscale.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album157/Watch_the_Tower_1

>
> I would appreciate to get ya'll's comments and critique.
> ?
> Regards J?rg
>
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