Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>On the plus side the reciprocity with Delta 100 as it is a tab grained film >would not have you loosing much time in low light as in night shots over >Tri x. >And why else would speed be an issue with sheet film? You're not shooting the >hockey game with it. >Unless you are like me and long to do it hand held. >..like with a Linhof master Technika! > > >Mark Rabiner I guess I don't "get it" since no one else seems to want faster films in 4X5. If you do something nutty like photograph people with a 4X5 then you'd want faster film. Its 2 stops and sometimes it matters. f8 at 1/30 is way better than f8 at 1/8. For a rock it hardly matters but people move. Or even outdoors and you're photographing a big group and you need every stop even in daylight. 2 more stops helps! 400 speed films in 4X5 still make wonderful, wonderful prints. There's just no grain to speak of until the print gets really big! There's no downside to having another choice of speed. Heck, I wish they made Delta 3200 sheet film. Delta, TriX and TMax are what I can buy locally. Now I'm down to the last 2. I just got some Arista 400 - supposed to be private brand HP5 we'll see how it is. OTOH maybe I sould just fall back on TriX and not worry with it. Henry