Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Issue 104 of the French Magazine Réponses Photo just out is devoted to black and white and you should get a copy if can get it and if you can read it. They have tested the new Delta 400 which they found to be more grainy than the old one. The new one has higher real speed than the old one which they call a 'small 400' , saying that it was not very pushable and likely to lose shadow details quickly, but with high definition and acutance. The new one has less of both these weaknesses and strengths, but for that there was already HP5, so what's the advantage of the new Delta 400? (They ask, not I) The tested 16 film and labeled six of them 'top buys', describing their advantages and disadvantges. The films (with disadvantgaes in brackets were): APX 25 (very slow and not suitable for all subjects) Delta 100 (none!) FP4 (none!) Delta 3200 (not a true 3200 and too expensive) Tri-X (the grain isn't everybody's taste) T-Max 3200 (needs much care when developing, too expensive) (Well, I would not agree with all that......., but Delta 100 is unsurpassed!) The RC papers the liked were Agfa Multicontrast Premium, Ilford MG IV Portfolio and Cooltone, Kodak Polymax II, Tetenal TT Vario Confort The fiber based papers they liked best were Agfa Multicontrast Premium, Berger Prestige CB Art, Berger Prestige Variabel CB and CM, Ilford Multigrade IV FB and ditto Warmtone, Kentmere Art Classic, Oriental Segull VC FB, and Tetenal TT Baryt Vario. - -- Christer Almqvist D-20255 Hamburg, Germany and/or F-50590 Regnéville-sur-Mer, France