Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]alex are any of these images going to posted on the 'net? - --Steven Blutter-- sblutter@earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~sblutter/ - -----Original Message----- From: Sander van Hulsenbeek <vanhulsenbeek@wxs.nl> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Sunday, April 26, 1998 4:35 AM Subject: Re: Re: [Leica] Films and Developers, Agfa Scala >About Agfa Scala: I just used 7 rolls of this expensive film in Iceland, >with my R5. This was not the nice green Iceland jou see in the pictures, but >stark winter landscapes with patches of snow and genarally monochrome brown >colors: ideal for Scala. Indeed: rich blacks, excellent detail in shadows, >very good rendition of white, and a large tone-scale. It has to be used as a >slide film: spotexposed on grey 18% or lighter subjects. It is very >susceptible for loss of light trough color filters. For an orange filter, >the meter is at least one stop off, so I set the film speed at 100 ASA. For >a light red filter even at 50 ASA. And bracketing is a good idea. Here in >Holland the film is NLG 17,-- plus NLG 25 for a developping, 37,50 in all, >that is about USD 21,--. I read there is now an Agfa Scala 200 extended, >that can be pushed to 1600 ASA >If anyone is interested I can put a few shots on my home page. > >Alex, Amsterdam, Holland > >