Digital BW, The Print

Sam, 
That sounds very much like what I and my father-in-law did back in the
late 60's using Kodak's High Contrast Copy film and developing in a
modified Buetler very dilute developer to tame the contrast. We rated
the film at that index also (6) and exposed for shadow detail. Used
Leicas & tripods and ended up with excellent tonality and no grain
showing in 20x24s. Our standard printing size was 16x20. I still have
my M3. I saved for a long time to buy it 2nd hand back then. For a
number of years that was my standard practice along with Tri-x for
available light work.

Regards
Duane


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Sam McCandless
<samcc@v...> wrote:
> By coincidence, Woody and Scott, I heard of Efke 25 in this article
> 
> <http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/enough-already.shtml>
> 
> which seems to me of more general interest. Here is a quote from it 
> about Efke and how Pete Myers uses it.
> 
> >[snip]
> >In all seriousness, here is what I use: I shoot monochrome, so the 
> >film of choice for me is Efke 25 - a relatively new, "old-school" 
> >film from Croatia. It is sold here stateside by John Anderson at J 
> >and C Photo. This is a microparticle film, with a high silver 
> >content, and extremely uniform grain. I rate the film at ISO 6 
> >(six), and meter for the dark fields of the image subject with the 
> >camera's internal light meter. I shoot my Leica lens opened up to f4 
> >or f2.8, with a number 8 contrast filter (I like B+W MRC filters). I 
> >shoot with a carbon fiber monopod and a Really Right Stuff 
> >quick-release system.
> >
> >My friends, Jeff and Katherine Cox at Cox B&W Lab, dutifully run the 
> >film though their dunk and dip Xtol system at 7 minutes and 21.25 
> >degrees C. I ship the film to them by FedEx with "Do Not X-Ray: 
> >Exposed Photographic Film" stickers on the shipping box. Their 
> >personal lab care results in scratch-free negatives, which my 
> >Hasselblad/Imacon 343 scans as if it were butter-rich and creamy!
> >[snip]
> 
> I'm sorry none of the links in the quote survived extraction of it.
> --
> Sam
> 
>