Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/10/26

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Subject: [Leica] Developer for Neopan 1600/TMax 3200
From: freakscene at weirdness.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Fri Oct 26 00:14:01 2007

 >Uploads They're here:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/main.php?g2_itemId=7617 The Japan,
Tsukiji and Rachel galleries are 100% Neopan 1600 at EI640.  
Thesehttp://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Russia/Pavel_with_Bychowsky_portrait.jpg.html
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Russia/St_P_XXIX.jpg.htmlhttp://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Russia/St_P_XXXIV.jpg.htmlare
 Neopan
400 at EI200, the outdoor ones with a deep yellow, or maybe a
yellow-green (B+W 060 - I think?) filter.  This 
shot:http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Portraits/File0585.jpg.htmlis
from Neopan 400 at EI400 with 20% more development than I normally give
it, to compensate for very flat light in our living room. It's all
developed in Xtol 1+3 or a home-made equivalent. Scanning frustrates me
and I need to get better at it (and get a better scanner - these were all
made with an Epson 4870).  Slobodan has several silver gelatin prints of
mine from the print exchange and I think that these are a better
indication of my general abilities, but these scans are indicative. I
also have a pile of sensitometric information to support my approach, but
as I said in the previous e-mail, I prefer to work by using the "if it
aint broke" approach.  After all, all the speed standards, CI guidelines
etc were based on work by Kodak that used visual appraisals of prints to
determine what was "normal".  It's also interesting that Kodak changed
the standard in the 1950s sometime so that all their films doubled in
speed overnight (this is when Tri-X went from being a 200 speed film to a
400 speed film - I've wondered if it was reformulated at that time, but
have never been able to find out). Marty

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