Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Giving the Leicas a floggin'
From: Rob Heyman <rheyman@bigpond.net.au>
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 12:51:49 +1000
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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
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