[pure-silver] Re: Shoulder and highlight
- From: DarkroomMagic <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: PureSilverNew <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 18:30:50 +0100
I'm interested to see what you've got.
Regards
Ralph W. Lambrecht
On 1/1/05 6:16 PM, "Bob Randall" <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 12/31/04 7:09 PM, "Ryuji Suzuki" <rs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> In my hand neither T-MAX 100 nor 400 has hump in their curves. T-MAX
>> P3200 can have it. I'm curious how you got hump in TMX or TMY if it's
>> what you are talking about.
>
> With regard to Xtol, when I was gathering data from my curves testing, I
> thought I had made a mistake along the way, so I repeated the process with
> this developer. I got the same results after a second try. A significant
> density build or hump starting in the lower midtone. I called Silvia
> Zawadski (sp) and Dick, can't remember his last name. They developed Xtol
> for Kodak and are now consultants to Kodak as well as others. They explained
> the hump as a result of greater activity of the developer on film in the
> midtone area. While the explanation was arcane and incomplete, they did own
> up to it. I did think from their explanation that the "hump" was specific to
> the developer and not the film. I've never seen it with any other
> film/developer combo.
>
> By the way, I scanned a bunch of the test film and was pleasantly surprised
> to find Tmax 400 the hands down winner so far. I shot test rolls of Tmax
> 400, Tmax 100, Fp4, PlusX and Delta 400. The subject was a woman from
> England. She has very pale, translucent skin with blond hair. She was
> wearing a black rayon pullover with tight weave and pants with a loud
> grey/white texture. Studio strobe lighting with a polaroid exposure at F11
> on a RZ67. The main light was a Desisti fresnel strobe which was bare and
> pointed directly at her face from slightly camera right. Very hot light.
> Bracketed all film around the indicated exposure and developed in Tmas
> developer at 68 degrees using using Anchell's times. The Tmax 400 carries so
> much workable tone it was wonderful. This is my first experience with both
> the film and developer. I want to try D76 and others. I'm looking for even
> greater highlight separation. Any suggestions? If any one wants to see the
> results, send your email address and I will forward the scan.
>
> Bob Randall
>
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