Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I highly recommend using Microdol-X to process your Neopan. If it is Neopan 400, process it diluted 1:3 at 75 degrees for 18 minutes. This will result in retention of all highlight and shadow details, making printing easy. I also use the aforementioned processing details for Delta 100, Acros 100, and Tri-X at 400. Dick Gilcreast of the Leica Historical Society mentioned this in an article of the Society's Viewfinder Magazine years ago, and it is wonderful! Last year I captured some images of people gathering at a very informal movie premiere, all wearing bright white t-shirts in bright sunlight, with my 90mm APO/Aspherical 90mm-M lens and Acros 100. I processed the roll of Acros in undiluted ID-11 (identical to D-76) and the t-shirt highlights were blown out, showing no detail whatsoever. (I used the ID-11 that time because I was out of Microdol-X.) I've captured images of children and cats and dogs during the last five years in various lighting conditions, including outdoors in bright sun and indoors with my Metz flash, and Microdol-X always gave and gives me easy-to-print negatives with details completely intact. Terry