Re: maco 4x5 developing - first results

["Joseph O'Neil" <joneil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:15 PM 6/5/2000 +0200, you wrote:
>I also just shot my first 4 sheets of Maco 820, and I just made contacts
>of them: they look very promising!
-snip-

Hello right back at ya!
:)

	Shot off 6 more sheets this past Saturday morning,  but not had the chance
to develop yet.  Used my B+W filter, set my spot meter at 12 ISO, and I was
reading values of 12 to 30 seconds at F45.
	Usually with good ole Tri-X, I like meter the lowest value I can detect in
my spot meter, then pull the developign a bit - the old fashioned wisdom of
"meter for the shadows, develop for the highlights."
	On my sopt meter, I had ranges of 9 to 14.  I was shooting an old bridge
over the forks of the Thames river (in London, ONT, not London, England),
lots of trees all around, puffy clouds.
	So I metered for 9 - the lowest value, but completely unsure of how
reciprocity failure affects this film, I tried everythign from a 1 minutes
to a 5 second exposure.  I'll ahve to see which works out best.
	Still plan to use Rodinal.  I have really hard water where I live,a nd
developers like Xtol do not work worth a darn for me unless I use distilled
water for all mixing, whereas Rodinal - man, that stuff is so hardy, it
would probally work if you mixed it with waste water from Chernobyl!
:)

will keep you posted.
joe


http://www.oneilphoto.on.ca
http://www.multiboard.com/~joneil

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