Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/24

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Film recommendation needed
From: "Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <peterk@lucent.com>
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 14:33:02 -0700

For print films, I would recommend the new Agfa Optima II 100 and 400.
If you prefer Fuji, then for ISO 100 I would recommend Reala if you do more
people photography.

Peter K

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> From: 	pieter@world.std.com[SMTP:pieter@world.std.com]
> Reply To: 	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Sent: 	Friday, May 21, 1999 4:24 PM
> To: 	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: 	[Leica] Film recommendation needed
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm off to Europe for the next three weeks:  two weeks in the French Alps
> and a week of obligatory visits to relatives in Germany, mostly in Berlin.
> 
> For the past several years I've been shooting nothing but slides (mostly
> Kodachrome-25) and B&W, but for this trip I want to bring print film since
> I'll want extra prints.  My problem is that color print films have all
> been "updated" or superseded recently, so I don't really know what film
> to choose.
> 
> I'm looking for suggestions for 100 and 400 speed color print films that
> will do well in a high-contrast outdoor setting.  Medium contrast and
> moderate saturation would be best, IMO.
> 
> Also, would Agfa print films be of any advantage in Europe?  I'm planning
> to have some of the stuff I shoot developed in Berlin.
> 
> -- 
> Pieter Bras
>