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    Little girl

    in Portraits & Fashion

    Posted

    <center>

    <img src="http://www.alaska.net/~rowlett/images/leaning.jpg width=489 height=709><br>

    "Little Girl Leaning"<br>

    Anchorage, Alaska<br>

    </center>

    I've been reprinting old negatives while attempting different things with contrast. If you feel she is slightly "high key" it was purposeful here. She had angelic qualities that I wanted to portray here. Plus it was a sunny day. No dodging or burning here. Shot with Tmax 400. Interestingly, over the last decade, she has been my cutest/most photogenic subject and I didn't even know her!

    Heiland "Splitgrade" VC head and controller

    in Leica and Rangefinders

    Posted

    Erwin Puts' article in the 8/99 issue of Leica Fotographie on the <a href="http://www.heilandelectronic.de/productpages/splitgrade/prod-eng-spltgrd.html">Heiland Splitgrade system</a>, available for several popular enlargers including the V35, has piqued my interest. I'm looking for any further knowledge and experiences with this system. It looks great actually. The savings in time, paper, and chemistry and the near perfect prints achieved without using test strips sounds too good to be true. I'm emailing the company for more info and will post here any further info I get.

    Leica User Group List Archive

    in Leica and Rangefinders

    Posted

    Thanks for posting that, Martin.<p>

    Even though numerous sites exist that feature links to Leica related

    material, I just created the category "<b>Links to Other

    Resources</b>" as yet another source of links for use by this growing

    Leica community. As new links are added, members can automatically be

    alerted via email.<p>

    We should probably start a new thread for each new link so links are

    displayed under the category heading rather than a single

    thread. Unless, of course, anyone has a better idea.

    Washing with daylight tank; controlling temperature

    in Minox/Miniature

    Posted

    It's easy for me to control the temperature of water coming out of the faucet when the water is coming out at normal rates, i.e. rates that would seem to be too much for the small Minox daylight tank. When I diminish the water flow to the recommended thin stream, I find it almost impossible to control temperature, even a little bit. Not a huge problem with films like Tri-X, but I am more concerned with Tmax 100, the film I'm currently using.<p>

    Questions:<p>

    <ul>

    <li>Is film adequately washed with a much higher rate of flow from the faucet when using the daylight tank? Does it go inside properly or is it just pushed over the top?

    <li>With a lower, thin-stream flow, how do you control temperature to at least keep it in the ballpark of 65-70F ?

    </ul>

    Leitz Focomat V35 Enlarger

    in Leica and Rangefinders

    Posted

    Not the one that comes with it, but you can get a 25x37 carrier

    (Leica part #17012) which allows for full frame printing with the

    black border around the frame. It's got anti-newton glass on both

    sides which makes for a perfectly flat negative during printing. Six

    surfaces to keep spot free is more difficult, but the results are

    worth the trouble.

    Noctilux 50mm f/1 shots

    in Leica and Rangefinders

    Posted

    Ah, what the heck. Thought I'd post my latest Noctilux shots for you to look at. Went to a wake this month in Fairbanks for my friend Tom Rowinski in Fairbanks, Alaska. I took my M6 and Noct. to the wake/party which included a huge bonfire. Here are three that I just put up. I used Photoshop to add a color cast to protray the color of the bonfire. Each color is different, but I don't know which is better.<p>

    <a href="http://www.alaska.net/~rowlett/images/wake1.htm">wake1.htm</a><br>

    <a href="http://www.alaska.net/~rowlett/images/wake2.htm">wake2.htm</a><br>

    <a href="http://www.alaska.net/~rowlett/images/wake3.htm">wake3.htm</a><p>

    What do you think?

    Picture: Rice

    in Minox/Miniature

    Posted

    Mimi was making dinner and pouring the rice into the cooker. I

    noticed the sunlight hitting the rice as she poured it (no flash on

    this shot!) so I had her re-pour but very slowly so I could catch some

    of the single grains.<p>

    What's absolutely amazing about photography with the Minox is that you

    can take pictures of ANYTHING and not worry about any issues of

    illegitimacy arising from people with their noses in the air. Some

    large format or medium format photographer will typically say to me

    that my Minox shots are stupid, that I shouldn't have bothered taking

    them, that they have no pictorial qualitites, that the grain is

    excessive, and why bother? I say, "Who cares? It's a Minox snap! It

    is the most unpresumptuous camera on the planet.<p>

    Martin, would you prefer that ALL photos be posted to this one thread,

    or that new threads be posted for each image? And how many

    would you suppose can be posted for a given period of time? (don't

    worry, I'm not going to FLOOD the forum with my snaps!! :)

    Minox Slitter

    in Minox/Miniature

    Posted

    Martin, are there any films that you cannot slit using the slitter?

    The reason I ask is I got a slitter, and slit a couple of rolls of

    tri-x, and somehow the bottom rubber bed seemed to be gouged out or

    something. There were some pieces of it sticking up. Have you heard

    of this before? I got a replacement slitter, but I'm afraid to slit

    tri-x anymore. What about the tmax films?

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