Subj : Thats the picture...
To   : Marc Lewis
From : Bat Lang
Date : Thu Jun 09 2005 04:38 am

 -=> Quoting Marc Lewis to Baden Kudrenecky, [03 Jun 05  11:37:47] <=-

 ML> I only wish I could show you the print we made when I owned a photo
 ML> processing lab, some 23 years ago.  B&W 102x152cm (40x60in) from a
 ML> Kodak monochrome ultra-fine grain film (ASA 25 or 32, I forget which)
 ML> shot with one of the Canon aspheric optics, processed in a micro-fine
 ML> grain developer and printed through a (IIRC) glass negative holder via
 ML> a 40mm/f2.8 Schneider Companon optic with the paper held on a vacuum
 ML> easel.  The grain is _just barely_ visible on the print.

Would that have been Panatomic X (25) and Kodak Microdol developer?
(Tho that was a Pan Chromatic rather than Mono Chromatic emulsion).
I did a bit of work with that combo, in my younger days. {^;
Good Modeming!  /\oo/\

BTW, I read recently somewhere? that the NY Public Library was
undertaking the archiving of some of there older, delicate images, using
a professional digital camera capable of 75 mega pixels! But short of
something like that, I agree with your viewpoint in analog vs digits,
particularly with equipment of less than a kilobuck. My favorite camera
had a 36", f: 8 lens, and was carried in the belly of an RF-101, which I
flew in RVN '69-70. Negative size was 9 x 18". {^;

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