Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information