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Subject: [Leica] Lenses and grain
From: feli2 at earthlink.net (Feli)
Date: Tue Jun 14 10:34:45 2005
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On Jun 14, 2005, at 4:45 AM, Ric Carter wrote:

> Okay, feli, I'll call you crazy.

Well, you're not the first to do so.
;-)

> Grain is a physical object -- a little tiny rock of metallic silver. 
> It's shape and size are determined by the size of the rocks pasted on 
> the film, the amount of light that hits the rock, and the way it is 
> developed.
> How on earth could the lens that only dumps light on the rock possibly 
> affect that?
> Large, low contrast areas do make grain easier to see and more 
> apparent. Lots of image detail makes it less so. So in theory, I guess 
> a soft, low contrast lens may make you notice grain more, and a 
> contrasty lens may make you notice it less, but that's simply your 
> reaction to the picture. The actual grain of the film is the same, a 
> characteristic of the film and developer only.
>

I'm really not sure what the answer is. There shouldn't be a 
difference, since like you
said, grain really is a crystal of a fixed size etc. I really don't 
have an answer, but believe
I am seeing a pattern in my negatives. I'll try to do a test some time, 
by exposing several
lenses on the same strip of film.

feli


> Ric Carter
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Passing-Fancies
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