[rollei_list] Re: Rolleiflex traveling
- From: william schillereff <pastorbill6@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 11:31:37 -0600
The great thing about having become one of the landed gentry living in the
mountains in the golden years without a woman to monitor every shekel is
there is finally time to play in a darkroom. That is a lonely old man
living in a shack in the hills without a dollar for anyone to spend is
that the nostalgic pungent blend of stop bath and fixer cannot be compared
to the sterility of plastic and wire blend into an image on plasma. Can
there be any comparison to a stunning portrait with subtile building
blocks of visible fine grain printed on bromide paper? Nor the
satisfaction of known the image will survive long after memory of the
photographer fades? Unlike the photographer when the prints fades it can
be again developed and fixed as a new creation. JPG's and ink fade like
the photographer and technology can't bring them leaves them in pieces
which like Humpty Dumpty cannot be put together again. A thousand years
from now archaeologists will be discover and print the immortal celluloid
resurrecting prints of yesteryear.
On 10/5/11 10:05 AM, "Frank Deutschmann" <frank.deutschmann@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>The great thing about scanning versus classic printing is that we don't
>'need' accutance anymore: do the sharpening in the (highly controllable)
>computer rather than the (relatively uncontrolable) developer bath....
>But sharpening effects are little compensation for unsharp lenses, csi
>magic notwithstanding!
>
>
>-frank (mobile: +1 203 962 3834)
>
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>From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>From: "william schillereff" <pastorbill6@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 11:14 PM
>Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Rolleiflex traveling
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>
>> When you identical are you also referring to development
>> time? I am going
>> out and find some of this. I live in mountains and I need
>> really fine
>> gran when doing BW of trees, hills and rock strung or
>> encased valleys.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> On 10/4/11 6:28 PM, "Richard Knoppow"
>> <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>Ilford Perceptol
>>
> If you want the finest grain use a combination of any
>of the 100 speed tabular grain films like 100T-Max or
>Delta-100 with Perceptol or Microdol-X full strength. The
>combination will give you nearly as fine grain as the late,
>lamented, Technical Pan but with about four times the speed
>(EI-50) and much easier to control contrast. The combination
>will begin to give the kind of smoothness of tone rendition
>for 35mm that one gets from larger negatives. However, there
>is little or no acutance effect so you need good lenses for
>sharp images.
> As far as I can find out the formulation for Perceptol
>is identical to Microdol-X. I can't be sure because there
>are often ingredients that do not have to be shown on the
>MSDS. However, both rely on sodium chloride (yup, table
>salt) as the fine grain agent. When diluted 1:3 either
>becomes an acutance developer yielding a considerable
>sharpness booste and full film speed but does not have the
>extra-fine-grain property it does when used full strength.
>
>--
>Richard Knoppow
>Los Angeles, CA, USA
>dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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