Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Overexpose and underdevelop, I am sure it was the thing to do once. But films have changed, and so have developers. Perhaps it is time to change development practice? Radically. Exposing a 100 film at 200 instead of 80 lets you shoot at 1/125th second rather than at 1/50th (all other things equal) which may be the difference between a blurred and a good negative. Anyway, given a choice I would always prefer a thinner negative to a denser one, provided there is some shadow detail. I find that dense negatives lack sharpness ..... and acutance and microcontrast and all the rest. - -- christer almqvist eichenstrasse 57, d-20255 hamburg, fon +49-40-407111 fax +49-40-4908440 14 rue de la hauteur, f-50590 regnéville-sur-mer, fon+fax +33-233 45 35 58