[pure-silver] Re: TMX AND RODINAL?
- From: Elias Roustom <elroustom@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:22:20 -0500
Sounds like a challenge Laurence. Maybe we should all start posting
photos of how messy our work areas get, and vote on a winner, or
loser, as the case may be. I've been cleaning up lately, but I'm sure
I mess with the best of them.
I'd like to see Dennis' messy darkroom too!
What do you say Dennis?
E.
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Laurence Cuffe <cuffe@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 15 Dec 2009, at 16:07, Dennis Purdy wrote:
>
> You are probably doubting my credibility Ralph and I would say that anyone
> making any claim is possibly spouting off for the pleasure of it or creating
> their own personal mythology. My situation is that I have been doing custom
> lab work for 25 years now and I still process film all the time though now I
> try to keep it to film day which is Monday. Because I am constantly doing
> it I can easily run various tests and throw them in with my work flow. I do
> this partly out of boredom but mostly out of a desire to know things, or
> sometimes just a desire to shoot some film around the house where my lab is.
>
> What usually happens with my test film is that it sits by the light table
> and the densitometer un cut or partly cut until I get tired of looking at it
> and tired of the mess and I throw it out. Some stuff I keep if it is
> especially interesting to me, like comparisons between lenses and cameras or
> paper types with developers.
> I actually printed the test I referred to with the Tmax 100 in various
> developers and those prints lay on my print rack for months until in a
> frustrated moment of cleaning the chaotic lab up I must have thrown them out
> as well because I just looked in several boxes and they aren't there.
> I can describe the scene I shot with that if that helps. I shot sunlight
> coming through the window onto a vase full of water with very dark cut
> bamboo in it. I was studying the detail in the bamboo and the surrounding
> dark room as well as the highlight detail where the sun hit the bamboo and
> where the sun hit the glass vase. And I not only shot the test with my
> Rolleiflex 2.8FX, but I shot it as well with my Pentax 67. I am a testing
> idiot.
> But after looking just now I can't find that film or prints. You want me to
> do the test again? You want me to go around with a digital camera and show
> the piles of stuff I have to sort through?
> Dennis Purdy
>
> Denis, its great to know that there are people who are doing this kind of
> testing for their own information, and who are prepared to share their
> conclusions with us. I'd actually appreciate seeing some digital shots of
> the piles of stuff, but purely for personal reasons, so that I can feel less
> guilty about the state of my darkroom. Although I have a sinking feeling
> that my darkroom will out-disorganize anything out there!
> All
> All the best
> Laurence Cuffe
>
> On Dec 15, 2009, at 07:39, Ralph W. Lambrecht wrote:
>
> Dennis
> I would be interested to see this side-by-side comparison. Are those prints
> still available?
>
>
>
>
>
> Regards
>
>
> Ralph W. Lambrecht
>
>
>
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