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 --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list