Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/29

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Subject: Re: [Leica] 4x5 grain
From: LRZeitlin@aol.com
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 12:27:41 EDT
 
In a message dated 6/29/01 7:11:39 AM, John Brownlow writes:

<< press photographers in 1940 working with 400 film in 4x5 cameras worried
about grain. Fast emulsions often had horrible chalk and soot tonality. >>

I worked as a press photographer for the Boston Globe in the late 40s using a 
4x5 Speed Graphic and I can assure you that we NEVER worried about grain. 
What we worried about was getting the right shot in one exposure. Printed 
with a 65 line/inch screen, film grain the size of basketballs would hardly 
show.

Larry Zeitlin