Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Pete Su writes: > I think the point that is often missed is that > this "fact" has almost nothing to do with whether > you will get good pictures out of a Leica when > you have Tri-X loaded. If you are defining "good" to include things like grain and resolution, which you must do if you are talking about lens quality, then Tri-X does not produce good pictures. > I shoot almost 100% of my black and white on > Tri-X in 35mm or 120 because I like the look of > the film and I like to be able to hand hold > pictures most of the time. So do I. But the film is so grainy that cropping is out of the question, and fine details are usually invisible.