Its getting CLEAR NOW..

[travis2]

Hi..just wanna share with u..

 

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10 years ago, I did my own B/W developing in my little bathroom. Got sick of it and gave up. Had been sending to lab with varying results.

 

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I heard from someone that if u use Leicas, I should develop the films myself.

 

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10 years on, I developed my first few rolls.

 

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Heres what I found.

 

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I shot a roll using M3 and voigtlander 75/2.5 HP5+ using ilforso S 8 mins 1:9. Negs turned out flat and lack contrast. The prints were like film shot on delta 100..no grain, but SOFT, VERY SOFT.

 

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I shot again using M3 and 50 sumicron, developed with the same materials and time. The negs this time were BRILLIANT. I could see the sharpness of the negs without a loupe and the contrast is totally different from the previous. The negs GLOW, let me tell u.

 

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I can see it very clearly now...leica negs rates an 11/10 on my light table. And mind u, the 75/2.5 voigtlander is quite reputable.

 

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just wanna share my experience.

 

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;)

[karl_georg_wolf]

Hello Travis,

 

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would like to believe in the unbelievable, but perhaps there was a

different aperture/ time setting altogether when exposing.

 

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Maybe you try a second M and shoot identical subjects with the same

settings alongside each other. The results - as far as density of the

film etc. is concerned - should then be comparable. With the latest

V/C-lens and an older LEITZ-lens the V/C-results ought to be even

better.

 

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Good shooting

[travis2]

only the lens is different here. SAme body, same film, same

developer, same afternoon light, same location. F5.6 1/500 all the

way. Almost the same subjects.

 

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I will try again to prove myself wrong. ;)

[alexander_grekhov]

Travis, try shooting a roll of slow slide film with both lenses and

see if you see the same difference. My experience was very different

from yours, but then you might have gotten a dud of a lens with

75/2.5.

 

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Good luck!

[leonid]

Can you post an example of each ? When you get flat negatives , it

would seem more likely that it is a chemical problem . Maybe there

was a timing error in development ?

[travis2]

I will double check my developing routine again..timing has to be

consistent, i know.

[leonid]

Just develop them at the same time .

[andrew1]

Travis- Leonid is right- it sounds like a dev. problem. He's right,

too, when he suggests shooting a roll through each lens and

running them together in the same tank.

 

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Myself, I'm no big fan of Ilfosol F. Try Rodinol, Acufin, Microphen,

Microdol X, or HC110, Dilution B

[andy_piper2]

Aww - come ON, guys! I can see a difference between my 90 TE and 90

'cron negatives: same film, same tank, same time. And those are both

LEICA lenses - of the same focal length and built in the same era!

 

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Travis - don't let them spoil your epiphany! Actually, I had mine

looking at (boo hsss!) Contax-G negatives, but it's the same feeling.