Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_0003_01BDFDCF.ABD0FE20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I suppose we should wait until the New Portra films come out but here are my votes so far. I sell large prints and use 35, 6X7 and 4X5. The newly formulated Superia I vote as the sharpest if you can handle the contrast. Optima 100 is not as sharp by my vote. Konica 50 a nice film but has a history of being hard to print. Gold 25 a great very punchy film is no longer made but still on a lot of shelves (just bought 2 bricks). According to Kodak the new Portra is sharper than PRN even though more grainy. Their index shows Gold 25 at 28, R Gold 100 @ 30, PRN @ 30 and Portra @32 on their grain scale,but the Portra is suppose to appear sharper. Prn in it's latest incarnation is less contrasty than the first version and Portra VC is suppose to have even less contrast than PRN. I believe the lowering of contrast in color neg. films is a concession to scanning. However since K will no longer have a neg film with a speed of below 160 available in 4X5, 120 &35 i.e.. PRN. IT WOULD SEEM TO ME A DELIBERATE PLAN TO MAKE IT VERY HARD TO EXPLOIT THE FINE OPTICS OF TODAY'S CAMERAS. (smaller film size[APS] and grainer films with a lowering of contrast). For me a sad turn of events. Roy Feldman - ------=_NextPart_000_0003_01BDFDCF.ABD0FE20 Content-Type: application/ms-tnef; name="winmail.dat" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="winmail.dat" eJ8+IikTAQaQCAAEAAAAAAABAAEAAQeQBgAIAAAA5AQAAAAAAADoAAEIgAcAGAAAAElQTS5NaWNy b3NvZnQgTWFpbC5Ob3RlADEIAQ2ABAACAAAAAgACAAEGgAMADgAAAM4HCgAWAA8AFQAAAAQAHQEB A5AGAFAEAAApAAAACwACAAEAAAALACMAAAAAAAMAJgAAAAAACwApAAAAAAALACsAAAAAAAMALgAA AAAAAwA2AAAAAAAeAHAAAQAAAB0AAABTVjogTGVpY2EgVXNlcnMgZGlnZXN0IFY0ICM2AAAAAAIB cQABAAAAGwAAAAG9/VseMmxDeTtouxHSvABERVNUAAAAJKFEIAACAR0MAQAAABgAAABTTVRQOlJP WUZFTEBIT1RNQUlMLkNPTQALAAEOAAAAAEAABg4AtuoZ8f29AQIBCg4BAAAAGAAAAAAAAABjsZZT 5TvSEZ7vREVTVGFvwoAAAAsAHw4BAAAAAwAGEAAAAAADAAcQAAAAAB4ACBABAAAABgAAAHzxDAEE AAAAAwAQEJj7BgMDABEQ5AQAAB4AQhABAAAALgAAADwxOTk4MTAyMjE0MzIuSEFBMDg3MzRAbWVq YWMucGFsby1hbHRvLmNhLnVzPgAAAAsAAYAIIAYAAAAAAMAAAAAAAABGAAAAAAOFAAAAAAAAAwAD gAggBgAAAAAAwAAAAAAAAEYAAAAAEIUAAAAAAAADAAiACCAGAAAAAADAAAAAAAAARgAAAAABhQAA AAAAAAMAO4AIIAYAAAAAAMAAAAAAAABGAAAAAFKFAADjFQAACwBIgAggBgAAAAAAwAAAAAAAAEYA AAAADoUAAAAAAAADAEqACCAGAAAAAADAAAAAAAAARgAAAAARhQAAAAAAAAMAS4AIIAYAAAAAAMAA AAAAAABGAAAAABiFAAAAAAAAHgBsgAggBgAAAAAAwAAAAAAAAEYAAAAAVIUAAAEAAAAEAAAAOC41 AAsAbYAIIAYAAAAAAMAAAAAAAABGAAAAAAaFAAAAAAAAHgB/gAggBgAAAAAAwAAAAAAAAEYAAAAA NoUAAAEAAAABAAAAAAAAAB4AgIAIIAYAAAAAAMAAAAAAAABGAAAAADeFAAABAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAe AIGACCAGAAAAAADAAAAAAAAARgAAAAA4hQAAAQAAAAEAAAAAAAAACwCHgAggBgAAAAAAwAAAAAAA AEYAAAAAgoUAAAEAAAALAOeACyAGAAAAAADAAAAAAAAARgAAAAAAiAAAAAAAAAsA6YALIAYAAAAA AMAAAAAAAABGAAAAAAWIAAAAAAAAAgH4DwEAAAAQAAAAY7GWU+U70hGe70RFU1RhbwIB+g8BAAAA EAAAAGOxllPlO9IRnu9ERVNUYW8CAfsPAQAAAFUAAAAAAAAAOKG7EAXlEBqhuwgAKypWwgAAUFNU UFJYLkRMTAAAAAAAAAAATklUQfm/uAEAqgA32W4AAABEOlxNeSBEb2N1bWVudHNcYXJjaGl2ZS5w c3QAAAAAAwD+DwUAAAADAA00/TcAAAIBfwABAAAAMQAAADAwMDAwMDAwNjNCMTk2NTNFNTNCRDIx MTlFRUY0NDQ1NTM1NDYxNkYyNEM1MjEwMAAAAADunw== - ------=_NextPart_000_0003_01BDFDCF.ABD0FE20--