[Leica] M6 - now film speeds

[James Handsfield]

Thanks to everyone for your responses.  They’ve been helpful.  If you have more, keep ‘em coming.

Jim Handsfield

> On Oct 22, 2019, at 5:34 AM, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> wrote:
> 
> Check my blog link, it has images ;-)
> 
> 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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