Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/10/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks to everyone for your responses. They?ve been helpful. If you have more, keep ?em coming. Jim Handsfield > On Oct 22, 2019, at 5:34 AM, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> wrote: > > Check my blog link, it has images ;-) > > On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 1:02 AM John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.uk> > wrote: > >> Most B&W film was slower than manufacturers said if you went the Zone >> System and a densitometer. I rated FP4+ at 64 ISO and Tri-X at 160 ISO >> (in >> HC-110), so 64 ISO is not much more than a stop overexposed (that is at >> the >> shadow end, development can compensate for the highlights). >> >> john >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+john=mcmaster.co.uk at leica-users.org] On >> Behalf Of Richard Man >> Sent: 21 October 2019 20:43 >> To: Leica Users Group >> Subject: Re: [Leica] M6 >> >> re: film >> Tri-X is really just classics and you can't go wrong. I have a 4x5 photo >> scanning customer that shot it at ISO64, and used D23 for really low >> contrast negs with the histogram pushed all the way to the right, but boy, >> now that I have some competence on handling his negs, the tones one get >> with that combo is phenomenal. I will be writing a blog post soon on it, >> using his images (with his permission of course) as demonstration. >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > -- > // richard http://imagecraft.com > Beyond Arduino - When you're ready to get serious... > JumpStart C Tools for Atmel AVR and Cortex-M, The Better Alternative > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information