Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/29

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Exposure Latitute TMax / Delta 400 versus TriX / HP5 ???
From: John Brownlow <deadman@jukebox.demon.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 09:00:23 +0000
 
on 29/2/00 6:23 am, Hans-Peter.Lammerich at Hans-Peter.Lammerich@t-online.de
wrote:

> What is your experience? Are there some rules like + 2 , - 1 stop?

My rules are never expose TMY at anything faster than 400. It looks horrible
underexposed. Tri-X seems to be much more forgiving, but both films do their
best work for me exposed around 320. Xtol will give you more underexposure
latitude (about 1 stop) than most other developers... for overexposure
latitude I reckon 2 stops is about the max, unless you go to a split
developer or something like dilute D23.

I think the developer is at least if not more significant than the film.


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