Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/04/29
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> I read Curt's comments on film choices and techniques and
> Eric's and Marc's respose to those comments with some interest...
Hi LUG'ers -
Me too.
The reason is that after a 25-year pause, I'm still a bit
rusty and I haven't yet explored many of the films and
developers that are out there.
I shoot a lot of available light with lots of motion --
dancing, fashion shows, fencing, etc. and my camera of choice
for that has really become the Leica. I think they designed
that camera for those kind of images! My film of choice used
to be Tri-X developed in D-76 at 1:1 for 11 mins. Now I have
discovered HP5/Plus. But unlike Gary Toop, I develop it in
D-76 (no dilution,8 mins). Very tight grain. Beautiful
photographs using Summilux 35/f1.4; Summicron 50/f2 or
Elmarit-M 90/f2.8. I will explore some of the recipes which
others have tried. My problem is time. I don't have much of
it and too much to shoot (and too many other things to do)!
In the medium speed films, 25 years ago, I swore by Plus-X,
developed in Rodinal, 1:50 and shot at ASA 160. Lovely images,
nice tight grain, beautiful tonal scale. Enlargements to 40X!!
But these days I'm starting to use the Agfapan APX100 developed
in Rodinal (1:50). I've been using it for 120-film and with a 6X7
negative, there's just no grain. Gorgeous. I'm anxious to try
it with the Leica. But for that I first have to get it from
someplace as it's not available withing driving distance of Ithaca!
I hope we're not violating some kind of LUG charter. But I'm
learning a lot from the experts out there which I'm sure will
let me use my Leica to its best.
Happy shooting,
-- Wolfgang
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Wolfgang Sachse Cornell University
sachse@msc.cornell.edu http://www.msc.cornell.edu/~sachse
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