Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Johnny Deadman wrote - > I have found the 3200 films good and bad. Good in the sense that you can get > very fine grain with the right developer (TMAX dev is great), bad in the > sense that (as I recently discovered through extensive testing -- and then > reading the datasheet) they are 'push' films and their real (ISO) speed is > actually around 1200 ASA. > > This means that if you expose at 3200, much of the shadow detail you might > expect will simply disappear. In fact, my view is that they only offer about > one and a half stop's true speed increase over good old Tri-X or TMY. - --------------- At what ASA are you exposing the Tri-x at to achieve these results? Thanks, JEH