Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Greetings, I was recently at Keeble and Shucket and while I was speaking to the sales person, (Who shoots leica, and infact has some of his Cuba shots in a Leica Mag) he let me see some of his work. All 5x7. They had absolutely no grain.. so I asked.... being the curious sort that I am, what type of film he uses. He replied that he had been given a couple rolls of Delta 400 to try out and he had fallen in love with it. I then noticed that his last shot was grainy and he replied that the person whom had developed that roll did so poorly. So I guess my question here is which film has better tone and grain, and how touchy is it to time and temp for grain granularity? If you do shoot Delta, do you use T-Max/X-Tol developer or the standard (for me) HC-110 Dil B. Incidently, one of the other shots he had was taken with a Nikon and you really could see how that lens was flat compared to the leica lens. (He did a test with the 2 cameras, same film, same development tank, same exposure.) Thanks :) NO ANCHOVIE Mark Cohen (San Francisco)