Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I use a polaroid ss4000. and my Reala is awful! Rob Rolfe Tessem wrote: > --On Friday, April 11, 2003 11:55:09 AM +1000 Rob Heyman > <rheyman@bigpond.net.au> wrote: > > > 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 > > > > Rob, > > I'm saying that the grain on NPS is (illogically) larger than NPH, which I > think is actually very fine grained for a 400 speed film. NPC is newer and > I agree that it has very tight grain. I tend to use Reala if I need a > slower speed film and it scans fine on my Nikon 4000 -- what kind of > scanner do you use? > > Rolfe > > > 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