[Leica] M6 - now film speeds

[Richard Man]

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On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 1:02 AM John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.uk> wrote:

> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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.
>
>
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