[Leica] M6 - now film speeds

[John McMaster]

Most B&W film was slower than manufacturers said if you went the Zone System and a densitometer.  I rated FP4+ at 64 ISO and Tri-X at 160 ISO (in HC-110), so 64 ISO is not much more than a stop overexposed (that is at the shadow end, development can compensate for the highlights).

john

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From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+john=mcmaster.co.uk at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Richard Man
Sent: 21 October 2019 20:43
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] M6

re: film
Tri-X is really just classics and you can't go wrong. I have a 4x5 photo
scanning customer that shot it at ISO64, and used D23 for really low
contrast negs with the histogram pushed all the way to the right, but boy,
now that I have some competence on handling his negs, the tones one get
with that combo is phenomenal. I will be writing a blog post soon on it,
using his images (with his permission of course) as demonstration.