2010/12/8 P. J. Alling <[email protected]>: > Tri-X in D-76 is pretty forgiving, you can soup in a bathroom and pretty > much time it with your pulse. Learned to do that in a Photojournalism > course taught by a semi-retried Photo-Editor from the Providence Journal. > Except for the fact that that the film used was 35mm rather than 4x5 it was > a technique that wouldn't have been alien to Weegee. > > Let me see now, what was my point... Oh, yes. Pick a film and developer > combination, and learn it, until getting constant results is second nature. > Then branch out. > Exactly what I had in mind. It will take time to get consistant results and to try a couple other developpers. But I'm ready. I'll probably need a new Enlarger though, the one I could get is really really an old thing. Those go for cheap these days on Ebay so I'll probably get another one as soon as I'm OK with the films.
Hope TriX is forgiving as well with Tmax :) -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille/Thibs ---------------------- Photo: K-7, Sigma 28/1.8 macro, FA50/1.4, DA40Ltd, K30/2.8, DA16-45, DA50-135, DA50-200, 360FGZ ... Laptop: Macbook 13" Unibody SnowLeo/Win7 Programing: Delphi 2009 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
