Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks to Don and Mark and the others who contributed to the thread. Spurred by it, I bought a couple of rolls of Neopan 1600 and shot them (using EI 1600) at a Warhammer tournament my son was in on Sunday. I developed the negatives in XTOL 1+3, 13 minutes at 20C/68F in my Jobo, i.e. continuous agitation. I am now scanning them, and my experience is exactly as Don describes: they look thin on the light table, but when I see the scan (LS-2000), there seems to be much more detail in those shadows than is the case with Delta 3200. I will experiment some more, but it looks like I may be switching to this film for my high-speed needs. Nathan Don Dory wrote: > This has been an interesting thread. I shoot Neopan 1600 at 1600 using both > M's and SL's using the meter to pick a middle gray or choosing a tone I want > to be whatever and adjusting up or down to deliver the tone. I find that > the relatively thin negatives print best and that there is an amazing amount > of detail hiding down in the toe. To the good the thin negatives also > display the least amount of grain. > > I find that Neopan 1600 doesn't respond well to overexposure at all, going > a little muddy and getting nearly as grainy as the faux 3200 speed films. I > think that the next time the LUG meets somewhere some of us should bring > negatives and the end prints so that we can see for ourselves what is going > on. > > Don > dorysrus@mindspirng.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch mobile: +41 78 732 1430 Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html