Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2023/12/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Two lovely high key shots of the photogenic Eri, Nathan Douglas On 01/12/2023 06:47, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > I have recently been testing various films with the Adox HR developer. I > like that developer because of convenience: the dilutions are very high, > like 1:30 or 1:40 depending on the film, and you only prepare what you > need that day. This eliminates the problem I have with powder developers > like D76, which have to be mixed to produce 1 liter of stock solution > which has only limited shelf life, so I end up wasting a lot of developer. > With the Adox, I do not have this problem. It is a liquid developer in a > small bottle (100 ml) and keeps very well. > > Last week the film I tested was Fuji Acros, shot in my Leica M2 and 50mm > Summilux. I did a photo session with Eri, my favourite subject, who is a > big aficionado of her fellow Greek Maria Callas, and she adopted a couple > of poses frequently used by Callas. > > Apparently this one is a classic Callas pose: > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-WKRgn9n/A > > This is just Eri smiling: > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-ScMR9F7/A > > The following day we had the last-Friday-of-November drinks, and I used > the same camera on our new trainees. They love the pictures. Somehow, > people really respond differently when they see these film photos, shot > with a camera and lens that were produced well before they were born (my > M2 is from 1966 and the Summilux I used from 1961). > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > photo at frozenlight.eu > > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.frozenlight.eu > > ????? ???????! ?????? ?????! > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information