Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/10/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:13 PM 10/8/96 -0600, you wrote: >This has eluded me for many years, even after extensive testing >with slow speed B&W films and fine grain developers. Perhaps "Perutz" >is referring to "pyro"? I don't know. However, from personal experiences, No, Perutz was something on the market 50 years ago. Developed to make fine grianed films of the day work faster, yet minimize grain and increase sharpness. Pyro, I believe, is more appropriate for printing, not negatives. But who knows, creative people can make something work for what it wasn't intended and fool the experts. The finest grain (yielding soft negatives) would be Kodak's Tech Pan film with Tech Pan developer. You will never be able to match 35mm with MF, because whatever you do with 35mm can also be done with the Mf film too. But Sebastiao Salgado made beautiful 16x20 prints with a V35 enlarger and Tri-X film, buy you wouldn't be fooled into thinking it's MF. But I say, who cares? Grainy 16X20s have a wonderful aesthetic beauty anyway! =========== Eric Welch Grants Pass, OR