Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I may be wrong, but the impression I get is that you are not thoroughly familiar with all of these films. If that is so, then the first piece of advice must be: do not use any film on summer long project unless you have thoroughly tested it and become fully familiar with it. When testing the films you may find that the Neopan 1600 does not give you much advantage over a slightly pushed Tri-X, which would then eliminate one of the three films. From tests that I have read, but not done myself, I think the new Tri-X has less grain and more acutance than the old one. Testers are questioning the correctness of the developing times published by Kodak, so again test this yourself. If you want to stick to one film you may wish to consider shooting Tri-X at half the speed on the box, or less, and develop accordingly. APX 100 is not considered a super-fine-grain-high-acutance film so the Tri-X may not be far off quality wise. Otherwise both films should be well suited for the environmental portraits. Please post some sample this fall, and have fun - and lots of success. Chris >I'm currently beginning a summer-long project. At this point I've shot three >different films: Tri-X, Neopan 1600, and APS 100, primarily because of the >different light I was shooting in. These are all portraits - environmental >portraits you might say. > >Is it desirable to shoot with the same film or is changing film okay? I think >I'll mostly be using APS 100 but there will be evenings when Tri-X will be >required. I hope I won't have the heavy overcast to require the Neopan again. > >Your thoughts would be appreciated. > >Thanks > >Adam >-- >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