Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"B. D. Colen" wrote: > > I'm looking for thoughts regarding the best film for B&W scanning... > > Any thoughts? Yeah: "Best" in what respect? Isn't it the same as why people use different films for wet darkroom use? Different looks? Different properties? If I had the time and equipment, it'd be interesting to do a comparison study. Not quantitative, but qualitative. Expose a bunch of different films, develop them according to manufacturers' recommendations, scan them and see what the qualitative differences are. Tri-X in Leica glass is a very good way of capturing that 60s look, I'm told (I didn't take too many pictures myself in the 60s ;) I'm guessing that you'd get similar differences if you printed XP-2 Super as you are now. M. - -- Martin Howard | Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | What boots up must come down. email: howard.390@osu.edu | www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +---------------------------------------