Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Simon, Techpan is one of those films that photographers give up almost everything for ultra fine grain. You have to do strange contortions in developing to get anything like normal gradation. You have to accept an extremely high red sensitivity. Your effective film speed is really in the ISO range of 12 no matter what the claims are. To get the sharpness that the fine grain demands you have to shoot with a tripod, careful focus, moderate aperture but not so far down that you are diffraction limited. In most cases, if you want ultimate technical quality, go up in format. To get most of the fine grain with a good grayscale, films such as Acros, Delta 100, or Plus X will give much better results with a lot less trouble. Just my 0.02 Don dorysrus@mindspring.com -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of animal Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 3:11 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] FS: Noctilux(yellow filter) > I'm firm believer in filtration. I was infected very early on about the need > to approximate the tonal values in scene onto a piece of paper through the > work of Ansel Adams. > Living in Southern CA, with its blistering glare, forces one to use filters. > Once in a moment of hubris, I photographed a series of nuclear domes > without filtration. I had just about complete tonal merger of the domes with > the sky. Thinking I'd come back and re-shoot a few weeks later, was abruptly > put to a stop by 9/11. This was in BW. Had I shot it in color, it wouldn't > been a problem. > I did shoot the forestry air service on the ground in Hemet, CA once with > Tech Pan. I also shot it with T-max 100. All done with filtration of > different combinations. I preferred the T-max, needless to say. > S. Dimitrov > >Since i,m contemplating to give techpan a try would you elaborate why you prefer T-max? thanks simon _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information