Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/10/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Check my blog link, it has images ;-) On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 1:02 AM John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.uk> wrote: > Most B&W film was slower than manufacturers said if you went the Zone > System and a densitometer. I rated FP4+ at 64 ISO and Tri-X at 160 ISO (in > HC-110), so 64 ISO is not much more than a stop overexposed (that is at the > shadow end, development can compensate for the highlights). > > john > > -----Original Message----- > From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+john=mcmaster.co.uk at leica-users.org] On > Behalf Of Richard Man > Sent: 21 October 2019 20:43 > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] M6 > > re: film > Tri-X is really just classics and you can't go wrong. I have a 4x5 photo > scanning customer that shot it at ISO64, and used D23 for really low > contrast negs with the histogram pushed all the way to the right, but boy, > now that I have some competence on handling his negs, the tones one get > with that combo is phenomenal. I will be writing a blog post soon on it, > using his images (with his permission of course) as demonstration. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard http://imagecraft.com Beyond Arduino - When you're ready to get serious... JumpStart C Tools for Atmel AVR and Cortex-M, The Better Alternative