Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > Hey Simon, >> >> Good work there. Taken as a whole you have really shown what went on. >> >> I think TMZ may be a little overkill for a daylight scene. Some of the >> grain comes through even on the web. >> >> Mike D >> >Well i really wanted to try hyperfocusing at f8 and thought i needed 1/250 >at least for most scenes so that left me little choice with the dark day. >Also most pics are cropped a lot and in order to make out a pretty face here >and there i unsharpened a lot and that brings out the grain. >Thanks for your comments. >simon >p.s according Kodak literature the film should give better results then a >400 pushed twice.do you disagree with that? TMZ better than TMY pushed two stops? Depends on what you mean by better results. But generally I would disagree. In this case definitely. TMY pushed to 1600 has much less shadow detail than TMZ @ 1600 but also a lot less grain. Shadow details are not of great importance to the pictures you show this time, so I think a pushed TMY would have been better than the TMZ you used. I agree with the comment above about the grain coming through on the web. But even worse to my mind is that the pictures are so flat and muddy. The grain is murky. Obviously the light was very diffuse, and this makes the pictures look like they do if you use TMZ. The pictures are not "clear" Pushing a 400 film to 1600 would increase contrast and make the pictures look more vivid, unless you print the flat on purpose.. For situations like the one you photographed I would go for HP5 @ 800 and develop in Rodinal. Grain yes, but very clean grain and high acutance. More sparkle. One more suggestion if I may; in a situation liked that, set your lens to 2 meters instead of four and get CLOSER! Best regards >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- Christer Almqvist D 20255 Hamburg and / or F 50590 Regnéville sur Mer please look at my NEW b+w pictures at: http://www.almqvist.net/chris/dozen/ old pictures still at: http://www.almqvist.net/chris/new - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html