Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/29

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Subject: Re: [Leica] 4x5 grain
From: Johnny Deadman <john@pinkheadedbug.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 12:55:56 -0400

on 6/29/01 12:27 PM, LRZeitlin@aol.com at LRZeitlin@aol.com wrote:

> I worked as a press photographer for the Boston Globe in the late 40s using a
> 4x5 Speed Graphic and I can assure you that we NEVER worried about grain.
> What we worried about was getting the right shot in one exposure. Printed
> with a 65 line/inch screen, film grain the size of basketballs would hardly
> show.

sorry my mistake shouldn't have put 'press' in there

I have a graflex book from the era which discusses grain of 'fast' films in
detail. The reproductions clearly show grainy pix.
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John Brownlow

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