Re: [Leica] Giving the Leicas a floggin'

[Rolfe Tessem <rolfe@ldp.com>]

- --On Friday, April 11, 2003 11:55:09 AM +1000 Rob Heyman 
<rheyman@bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> Rolfe, I have not found this to be the case with NPC, but I understand
> that some scanners will not work as well with grain of a particular size.
> It is akin to a moire pattern. For instance Fuji Reala on my scanner is
> atrocious, with (apparent) grain larger than 800iso film.
>
> If you do a scan on the archive you will find a number of references to
> this problem. Or are you saying that the actual size of the grain on the
> film is larger than NPH?
>
> Rob
>

Rob,

I'm saying that the grain on NPS is (illogically) larger than NPH, which I 
think is actually very fine grained for a 400 speed film. NPC is newer and 
I agree that it has very tight grain. I tend to use Reala if I need a 
slower speed film and it scans fine on my Nikon 4000 -- what kind of 
scanner do you use?


Rolfe

> Rolfe Tessem wrote:I think you'll find that NPS actually has larger grain
> than NPH. I'm not
>
>> sure why this is, other than the fact that NPH is probably a newer film.
>> Once I figured this out, I stopped using NPS altogether and now use NPH
>> 90% of the time. The other 10% is NPZ, although I've been trying some
>> Press 800 and it is also very good.
>>
>> Rolfe
>
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Rolfe Tessem
Lucky Duck Productions, Inc.
rolfe@ldp.com
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