Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Try putting your medium format or Xpan camera on a Gitzo carbon fiber tripod with a nice cable release and shoot Delta 100 or Neopan Acros and shoot them at 100. The film I did most my medium format landscapes with and I did quite a bit as Pan F 50 rated at 50. But the medium speed (100) tab grain films are pretty good. Maybe as good. If it was me though I'd shoot Fuji Neopan Acros which may not be a tab grain film but which looks better than Delta anyway. http://www.fujifilmusa.com/products/professional_photography/film/neopan_bla ck_white/100_acros/index.html Or http://tinyurl.com/ye5egh8 You'd think a tripod would slow you down but you'd be wrong shooting landscapes they speed you up. You have your hands freed and you can think. Take readings with a hand held meter or spot meter. I've found the rocks and trees seldom make a break for it. Just get a good ball head anything fast breaking you'll be able to get. The 100 speed films in general make the 400 speed films look very dull. And are so much sharper its not even funny. They blow up many times better. Its hard to judge the grain quality becuae you'll never see it without a powerful magnifier. That's how work such as yours is normally done. Hand holding shots of trees and rocks and water is ridiculous if its medium format. Even using a nice ball head with an M9 and Leica glass at the minimum iso or pull setting would be bound to be revelatory. Mark William Rabiner > From: Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2011 22:01:39 -0700 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Ten new film images from the Netherlands > > Those are 35mm Tri-X but on the XPan, i.e. 24mmx65mm. A couple of the > recent > posts were on the Shen Hao 617 but the majority of the images you see on my > blog are 35mm Tri-X film. I rate them at ISO 250 or 320, develop with Xtol > 1+1 using the Jobo. > > Xtol 1+1 gives me the most flexibility with my Jobo tanks - I can develop > one roll or up to five rolls using that ratio. If I use 1+2, then I can > only > do one to three rolls. > > On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > wrote: > >> I click on where to see a tri x landscape image? >> If your using tri x for medium format landscapes you're not exactly in the >> inner loop. >> >> >> Mark William Rabiner >> >> >> >>> From: Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2011 20:42:46 -0700 >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Ten new film images from the Netherlands >>> >>> Mark, I shot about 60 rolls of Tri-X so far this year. So I'm not >> entirely, >>> pardon the expression, talking out of my...hat. I know lately that you >> are >>> on a LUG Gallery kick, but if you bother to click on my links, you will >> see >>> many samples. At 1100 pixels across, they are not too small either. >>> >>> It's definitely true that once scanned and photoshopped, lots of things >> are >>> equalized. When they make a Digital Xpan, I'd be the first to get it. >>> >>> Until then, it's Tri-X for me, with an occasionally Acros 100 or >> Neopan-1600 >>> thrown in. >>> >>> On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> >> wrote: >>> >>>> That's that quaint expression "There's nothing like a good Tri-X" used >>>> with >>>> slight irony a wink wink and we wonder what gets communicated. An >> element >>>> of >>>> truth in that statement or just whimsy? >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> >>> // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.com/blog/> >>> // richard's personal photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> >>> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all >> previous >>> replies in your msgs. ] >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> > // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.com/blog/> > // richard's personal photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> > [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous > replies in your msgs. ] > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information