Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]NPS is very grainy for a slower film, in my experience. I'm not sure wether NPS has bigger grain size than NPH though, as i havent really shot enough NPH to compare. Regards, Paul - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Heyman" <rheyman@bigpond.net.au> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 11:55 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Giving the Leicas a floggin' > Rolfe, I have not found this to be the case with NPC, but I understand that > some scanners will not work as well with grain of a particular size. It is akin > to a moire pattern. For instance Fuji Reala on my scanner is atrocious, with > (apparent) grain larger than 800iso film. > > If you do a scan on the archive you will find a number of references to this > problem. Or are you saying that the actual size of the grain on the film is > larger than NPH? > > Rob > > > > Rolfe Tessem wrote:I think you'll find that NPS actually has larger grain than > NPH. I'm not > > > sure why this is, other than the fact that NPH is probably a newer film. > > Once I figured this out, I stopped using NPS altogether and now use NPH 90% > > of the time. The other 10% is NPZ, although I've been trying some Press 800 > > and it is also very good. > > > > Rolfe > > > > -- > > Rolfe Tessem > > Lucky Duck Productions, Inc. > > rolfe@ldp.com > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > __________________________________ > Rob Heyman Photography > 32 Binyara Street > CHAPEL HILL Qld 4069 > Ph 07 3878 3884 fax 07 3378 6639 > __________________________________ > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html