Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/01

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Subject: [Leica] OT which b&w 120 film for XXL prints?
From: dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Sat Mar 1 06:40:12 2008
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Just use the films you have always used.

If the print is up to 1 meter, no one is going to stand up next to it
with their nose buried in the print.

At a normal viewing distance, your normal films will work just fine.

Daniel


On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Didier Ludwig <leica@screengang.com> wrote:
> I have used 135 Ilford PanF 50, FP4 125 and HP5 400 for decades
>  and was always satisfied with it. But now I'm looking for a
>  b&w 120 film for big enlargements of 645 negs, up to 1m x 1.33m.
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>  Is Delta 100, or Fuji Acros 100, superior to FP4 in terms of fine grain?
>  And how does they compare in contrast, tonality?
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>  Has anyone experiences with that new Rollei PAN-25, or even
>  compared it to PanF 50? Or any othe suggestion?
>
>  Usage will be for landscape, daylight, tripod if needed.
>
>  Every advice will be strongly appreciated.
>  Many thanks in advance,
>  Didier
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