Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/19

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Subject: Re: LUG[Leica] Re: Film and Grain
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@neteze.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 08:44:56 -0800

sometime around 12/19/99 6:42 AM, George Huczek at ghuczek@sk.sympatico.ca
was heard  to write:

> This is probably not the best choice of film to use to try to
> minimize "grain" (dye clouds).  A silver-based film would be better.  The
> archival character of chromogenics is also still very suspect, and
> definitely less long-lived than most other silver-based materials.

Actually, with overexposure chromogenic films are finer grained than
silver-based films. And the problem of archival quaity with them is moot,
becuase you don't have to worry about color shift. From what I've read, the
current generation of chromogenic films will outlive their creators.

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Eric Welch
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