[Leica] Indoor available-light films

[rangefinder at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig)]

With ISO 3200 films you have always a rather rough grain, compared to ISO 
100! These shots do not look especially grainy to me, for this ISO range.

But 3200 seems to be quite high for this location, except if you need fast 
speeds and small apertures. I would have tried it with 400-1600 there, but I 
like to work wide open.

My subjective experience was that Ilford Delta 3200 is a bit finer than 
T-Max 3200, but as both films had been souped with Ilfotec it's difficult to 
compare. Ilfotec might be better for Ilford products than for others. It 
could be the other way round with Tmax developer.

If you go for ISO 1600, a 2x pushed Ilford HP5+ looks (a very little) less 
grainy than Delta 3200 @ 1600 (same again, when developed with Ilfotec). 
Fuji Neopan 1600 is quite fine in grain, too, a bit less contrasty than 
Ilford, but with a very "classic" look.

For 800 I would prefer a 1x pushed HP5+ to a 1x pushed Tri-X if grain is the 
main criteria. 

Didier

 

>This gallery is a first
>effort using Tmax 3200 and some of these pictures are rough as a cob,
>even with a lot of PS massaging.
>
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/Nashville-farmers-market
>
>Any comments, criticisms, and pointers gratefully accepted as
>street-shooting is very new to me. Any preferences between 'greens
>buying' 1 and 2? Tech stuff: IIIc w/ 3.5 summaron (being replaced w/ a
>CV 35/2.5 c), tmax 3200p in Tmax dev. 1:4.
>
>Thanks, 
>Arche