Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dan, I process my own C41, using the Jobo processor and Tetenal's chemicals, and my negatives look just fine when shot at the nominal speed. They also scan very well, which is important to me, since that is how I make prints these days. Nathan Dan Cardish wrote: > Thanks for the tips. In my experience, I have found that exposing these > high speed films (400 and up) at the 'official' speed ratings have always > resulted in signficantly underexposed negatives. I say this because I used > to do all my own colour printing, and using my standardized times for > making contact sheets allowed me to compare various films to one another in > a fairly objective way. In other words, if one sheet looked noticably > darker than another, I knew that the EI was off on the dark one (or I did > something terribly wrong, but this didn't happen that often ;-)). > > On the other hand, most of these films have a large builtin leeway for > exposure errors, so if I were to just have had the proofs done at a local > lab, I may never have noticed the differences. > > And, on one more other hand, I haven't done my own processing in awhile, > and certainly not with any of the current generation of colour negative > films (other than Reala), so the new films may actually be closer to their > posted ISO numbers. > > Dan C. - -- Nathan Wajsman Overijse, Belgium General photo site: http://belgiangator.tripod.com/ Belgium photo site: http://members.xoom.com/wajsman/ Motorcycle site: http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Downs/1704/