Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/11

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Subject: [Leica] Neopan Advice
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sun Jan 11 18:48:09 2009

Who you can over expose film by three stops and make it look like its under
exposed is beyond me.


Mark William Rabiner



> From: Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3@uwm.edu>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:08:43 -0600 (CST)
> To: lug <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Neopan Advice
> 
> On Sun, 11 Jan 2009Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com>wrote:
> 
>> I would disagree fully with over exposing and under developing to temper
>> contrast or anything else.
>> Over exposing and under developing is the worst thing you can do to film
>> period.
>> Exclamation point!
> 
>> Mark William Rabiner
> =======================================================
> I disagree with that.  I had marvelous results once exposing Tri-X at 32 
> ISO
> and processing in Microdol-X.  The resulting negative looked like 
> Panatomic-X
> when I blew it up to 16"x20".  I explained this situation in a post a 
> couple
> of months back.
> Here's the result:
> < 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Portraits/Model_AMR.jpg.h
> tml>
> 
> I also used to handle high contrast outdoor scenes by developing Tri-X in
> Rodinal 1:100.
> It was grainy, but super sharp, and lots of shadow detail.
> 
> Alan
> 
> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
> UPAA POY 1978
> University Information Technology Services
> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/
> 
> 
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