Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ilford has been making Delta 3200 film in 120 format for many years. Excellent stuff. On Mar 16, 2012, at 8:22 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > I shot a lot of medium format film. > I shot events with a Hasselblad for the most part. > Not Nikon or Leica. > I shot a lot of 220 Kodak tri x pro which was iso 320 and was tri x only in > name. I specialized in black and white. People thought that was artsy. > With the added size of medium format film and its need for more depth of > field it was a clear candidate for using a higher iso film then you would > when you shot 35mm. You'd not see the grain and you needed it > But you couldn't do it. > Because for the most part they didn't make it the stuff. > Neopan 1600 or color neg pro 1600 films didn't come in 120 let alone 220. > So it was a very frustrating thing. > What make it possible to do what did grabbing people in action with my > Hasselblad and sometimes even my Rolleiflex was my Norman 200C flash. > I was an f11 guy at 8 feet and be there. This was a manual flash with a > battery pack on your hip. > > I wound have LOVED it if they made faster than 400 films in Brownie film > for > my medium format cameras. > It never happened. > Shooting iso 320 or 400 films with those cameras was overkill to the max. > As it was in the end shooting those films with 35mm format. And shooting > at > those ISO's now with digital full frame. Overkill. Unless I plan on > covering > some of the larger walls at Grand Central Terminal which is not on my short > list. > I think of the 400 iso area now as "high rez". > Much like I thought of Panatomic or Agfapan 25 in the 1980's. > > -- > Mark R. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/ > > >> From: Lottermoser George <imagist3 at mac.com> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:33:59 -0500 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] S2 vs. 645D sensor >> >> >> On Mar 15, 2012, at 4:52 PM, Richard Man wrote: >> >>> Does anyone know if the S2 has microlens ala M9 or is that deemed not >>> necessary? >>> >>> Thread here: >>> http://forum.getdpi.com/forum/medium-format-systems-digital-backs/35511-multi >>> -part-leica-s2-review.html >> >> Who cares? >> They won't shoot ISO 132,000 >> ;~) >> >> Regards, >> George Lottermoser >> george at imagist.com >> http://www.imagist.com >> http://www.imagist.com/blog >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information