[Leica] Re: Nikon Scanners (now slow film)

[drodgers at casefarms.com (David Rodgers)]

As fine a pair as PanF/Rodinal is, I think I prefer ATP 1.1 in Spur DC.
The only downside, as Bob alluded to earlier, is the price of Spur
developer. 

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: H. Ball Arche [mailto:h_arche@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 10:47 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Nikon Scanners (now slow film)

PanF & Rodinal 1:50. ooooooooh


--- On Thu, 9/11/08, bob palmieri <rpalmier@depaul.edu> wrote:

> From: bob palmieri <rpalmier@depaul.edu>
> Subject: [Leica] Re: Nikon Scanners (now slow film)
> To: lug@leica-users.org
> Date: Thursday, September 11, 2008, 5:48 AM
> On Sep 11, 2008, at 2:17 AM, Walt wrote:
> 
> > I remember using Tech Pan in 1983. Was shooting my
> wife and son  
> > (weeks old) and fell in love with the stuff. Still
> yet, I'd trade a  
> > fuzzy,grainy image that says something over a
> sharp,grainless one  
> > any day. Being so use to shooting on the fly I just
> couldn't handle  
> > slow film.
> >
> > To be honest, I doubt much slow film has made it into
> image   
> > production.
> 
> In my case there hasta be one M body with 400 (or
> occasionally 1600)  
> speed film in it so that I can dedicate another one to
> something  
> really slow.  I find that B&W nature stuff is extremely
> demanding  
> when it comes to texture rendering.
> 
> Problem is, I now have 4-6 images which need to be huge in
> order to  
> make sense.
> 
> And I really, really hate to say things like this, but my
> M-2 / 50  
> 'cron / ATP 1.1 setup is now producing better imaging
> at a given  
> print size than my Rolleiflex / Acros 100 rig.
> 
> Bob Palmieri
> 
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