Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Gerry - It was shot on Astia - my favorite color slide film for people. I did, as an experiment, carry lots of color negative film on the last trip to Honduras with exactly that in mind. I thought I'd be able to use it for both color and B&W stock, but I was disappointed in the the color negative film (I used Fuji 400 and 800). I chose the color negative for the high speed equivalency to B&W, but the highlights and shadows were grainy and unpleasant. It might be possible to carry only color transparency film and convert to B&W, but I usually need the high speed of B&W and haven't found a high speed color positive film that I like either. Probably 85% of the stock that I sell is color so it would be nice to find a film that I could use for both! Let me know if you have any suggestions. Leically, Tina At 12:26 PM 10/1/00 -0400, you wrote: >What I think is really interesting in this exercise is that the print must >have been shot originally on some kind of colour stock (Tina may tell us >what) and that either version could be equally acceptable depending on the >future requirement for it. This fact brings into question whether shooting on >b&w stock for digital use has any future at all, or whether it would be >better to shot everything on colour stock (possibly tranny) and then let the >end use or maybe the subject matter dictate the format (if that is the right >word) that it is finally output as. > >Gerry > >Gerry Walden (UK) >Tel: (0)23 8046 3076 >Fax: (0)23 8034 8542 Tina Manley, ASMP http://www.tinamanley.com