Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]><Snip> > > 400 speed films in 4X5 still make wonderful, wonderful prints. There's > just no grain to speak of until the print gets really big! There's no > downside to having another choice of speed. Heck, I wish they made Delta > 3200 sheet film. > > Delta, TriX and TMax are what I can buy locally. Now I'm down to the last > 2. I just got some Arista 400 - supposed to be private brand HP5 we'll > see how it is. > > OTOH maybe I sould just fall back on TriX and not worry with it. > > Henry ON a tripod with 4x5 F8 at 1/30 is NOT way better than f8 at 1/8 for a lot of purposes. I can't think of an easy example of what you can do at a 30th that you can't do at an 8th. You can certainly shoot portraits at 1/8!! Lots of famous portraits have been done at an 8th. But two stops with reciprocity failure added can mean the difference between a few seconds or a few minutes. And some of us with ADD or week bladders or both don't make it that well standing around for ten minutes at a time. We start to forget what we're doing there. Or start doing the pee pee dance which can jiggle a nearby tripod. But hand held is a different ballgame. (And I'm talking about the first thing) Mark Rabiner Portland, Oregon USA Updated ALL MY DESIGN webpage!! http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/ Chick the "personal work" Link! and "tears" a few "family scans"