Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric: The grain seemed better than a kodak multispoeed film I shot at an EI of 800. I find the slide films always look sharper and are a little cleaner looking. Some of the problem may be that a lot of the mini labs that do C-41 do not have good quality. The negatives always seem to come back with roller marks and dirt. I just got a Jobo CPP-2 and may use it to do some C-41 processing. The negative film is still better in harsh light for getting some shadow detail. The negative films may have an advantage in grain when using an EI over 800. The P1600 slide films seem very contrasty as well. I can understand why the newpapers use negative films with their wide latitude. Since I was shooting slide film for the Football game, I decided I better do some test exposures. During the warm up I shot a 20exp roll of the players to use as a test film. I developed this first and saw that it was slightly dark, so I did the other four rolls with a half stop extra push. I understand now why some pros do snip tests on their films prior to developing the whole batch. I have a friend in the sign business that needed some pictures to scan and show clients his work. He wanted it in prints, but I told him slides would be much better. I shot it with a 50 asa Agfa print film and Velvia. The Velvia scanned with almost no grain. The Agfa looked muddy in the whites and was grainier. He was sold on slides and I did the rest with Velvia. I did some of the signs with the Noctolux so that they stood out from the background. It did an awesome job. With Velvia you can shoot at F1 and 1000th in hazy and overcast light. Regards, Robert At 07:34 PM 11/22/98 -0600, you wrote: >>Talking about fast lenses and auto focus. I was shooting at a colledge >>football game yesterday and found it very dark in the rain. I was using >>E200 pushed to 640 and was able to shoot at 750th to 1000th at 2.8. > >How was the grain with this combination? My experience has been that fast >slide film is grainer than fast negative film. Are the newer slide films >pushed good? >-- > >Eric Welch >St. Joseph, MO >http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch > > The Devil whispered behind the leaves, It's pretty, but is it Art? - >Rudyard Kipling > > > >