Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/19

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Subject: Re: [Leica] 35mm versus 120
From: Mike Stone <mike.stone1@virgin.net>
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 19:03:43 +0000

Hi all

I use both Leica and Hasselblad professionally all the time, 1000+ rolls
a year. Film flatness has never been a problem with either system ever.
The only time it has ever been an issue was when shooting cars on 10" x
8" with tungsten lights on a 4 minute exposure and we deduced that it
was the heat of the light buckling the film.

However if anyone has an example of the problem to show me I would be
interested. On the thoery of letting your film settle after winding on,
just how do you shoot a portrait if you are waiting around for the
"settle".

As we would say in the north of England " what a lot of cobblers" :)


Mike Stone


 
> Austin Franklin wrote:
> >
> > That makes NO sense.  I know dozens of VERY experienced MF shooters, as
> > well as I am certainly one, and I do nothing 'special' to 'keep my film
> > flat'.
> >
> > What, exactly, do 'experienced MF shooters' DO to supposedly keep the film
> > flat?