> ------------------------------ > > Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:44:57 +0400 > From: "Boris Liberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PDML" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Impressions of a scholar > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1251"; format="flowed" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > Hi! > > Let it be a little discourse away from lens resolution and other such > topics <grin>... > > I finally got my EktaChrome 100 slides and two films of TMAX 100 > processed. > > 1. Proper B/W film is way smoother than T400 CN C-41 film I've been > using as a study so far. I definitely am not going to use C-41 B/W > stuff any more. The play of tones is amazing. I am getting converted, > am I not? <grin> > > I will be posting some of the shots, probably to oncoming PUGs too. > > 2. The colors of E-Chrome 100 were just perfect. Very true, very > painting like. Even though I've been shooting mostly faces (my > daughter's first day in k-garten, etc), I really liked it. Amazingly > enough, the scans were 100% dustless while all colors went for a walk > to say the least. I am afraid I am going to leave this lab too. > > Finally, my friends from not-so-local photo club invited me to do my > own dark room work, at least for B/W. So I am buying 5 more TMAX 100s > and I keep growing. Though, my both arms are usually left, so it would > be fun and challenge to learn how to process film manually. > > Thought I'd share that with you... > > Boris > > ------------------------------ Ah, so you're ambi-sinestrous. I've been blessed with that all my life. It enables me to do more than my share of assuring that we don't live in a perfect world. Two left hands allows me to make lots of 87 or 92 degree corners. "Anyone" can make 90 degree corners.
Larry
