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Re: [Digital BW] Re: Getting reasonable scan file sizes w/ MF & LF ...

2008-10-07 by Gary Weaver

I resist the t-grain films, but my opton tessar gives me a look I don't get with anything else on tmax100. My solutions are warm, so density is different.

The film is worth investigating. They do lay pretty flat.

gar

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On 10/7/2008 at 3:34 PM Roger Sopher wrote:

>Sorry to jump in to a private conversation Steve, but how do you obtain 17
>stops range. When I was doing large format B&W using the zone system, the
>difference from dead black to paper white was 8/9 zones = 8/9 stops.
>Admittedly I am a dinosaur of the TRI-X,  HC-110 era and have been out of
>the darkroom for some time but 17 full stops sounds miraculous.
>
>Roger
>
>
>On 10/7/08 2:47 PM, "Steve Gledhill" <stephengledhill@...> wrote:
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