Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Low Contrast Film
From: Jeffcoat Photography <jeffcoatphoto@sumter.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 18:18:38 -0500

Tina: Try the Agfa films. Their print films have a flatter contrast, and some
of the work in slides I've seen others do, well it seems softer, a more quiet
coloring.
Cheers Wilber GFE
tel. 803-469-2440

http://www.jeffcoatphotography.com


Tina Manley wrote:

> LUGnuts -
>
> I'm planning for a trip to the Mosquito Coast in July.  The color
> transparency film that I usually use - Fuji Astia or Provia - is much too
> contrasty for the extremely harsh sun there.  Ordinarily, I love the skin
> tones of Astia and the beautiful greens of Provia, but I've been
> disappointed in the past with the dense shadows and washed-out highlights
> that I've gotten using those films in the impossibly bright light of the
> Mosquito Coast.  Can anybody recommend a lower contrast transparency film
> that I can try out?  I'd love to do only black and white, but that's not a
> choice.
>
> Thanks -
>
> Tina
>
> Tina Manley, ASMP
> http://www.tinamanley.com

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