[rollei_list] Re: Plus X -PX 125- and Microdol X discontinued

  • From: Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:03:34 -0500

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Richard Knoppow wrote: (snipped)

>    In any case it is certainly true that high sulfite developers tend not to
> have acutance effects. But the main cause of "mushiness" is the lack of
> resolution of the film, the lens, or both. Keep in mind that to get good
> resolution on an 8x10 print from a 35mm negative requires something on the
> order of 60 lp/mm on the negative at reasonably high contrast. That is hard
> to do considering both film and lens have to have about double this value.
> This is one reason that getting results from 35mm that are comparable to
> almost anything larger is very difficult.


Even if the lenses are film are capable, the technique gets in the way...

Once again, we get back to the fundamentals.



Eric Goldstein
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