Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]thx i liked tmax and across but didnt come close to what i could do with techpan.Only tried a few rolls but result amazed me . Even on my consumer scanner no detectable grain at A0 print sizes . Spur and copex i had forgotten about those . thank you very much for your comments simon almaty \rkz On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Tim Gray <tgray op 125px.com> wrote: > On Apr 02, 2012 at 01:42 AM +0930, Marty Deveney wrote: >> >> On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Tim Gray <tgray op 125px.com> wrote: >>> >>> What always confuses me is that T-MAX 100 wasn't mentioned. ?Also a good >>> film. >> >> >> I don't mention it because it also has (to me) a somewhat odd spectral >> response: > > > Understood. ?The T-Max films do have a different spectral sensitivity, but > in my experience, most films differ in this respect. ?Actually, Techpan had > extended red response, so if that's important to the original poster, I'm > not sure any of these is a good match. > > I wasn't really only pointing the finger at you. ?More of a statement about > these kinds of discussions online. ?T-Max 100 always seems to be left out. > > I saw a comparison between these four films on rangefinderforum a couple > months ago. ?Unfortunately, the scans are no longer on line. ?The films > weren't identified at first and people guessed which picture was which > film. > ?It was interesting to see what people guessed - they placed their favorite > films with the pictures they liked the most. ?One of the scans looked > noticeably worse than the others (could have been the development, the > film, > or the scanning) and that was the one that several people said was T-Max. > ?The one that many people liked the most was the actual T-Max shot though > most people thought it was something else. ?Once the results were revealed, > several people were shocked to find out how grainy the PanF+ actually was. > > Of course, it was more of a test of those four films, developed in the > manner they were developed, and scanned the way they were scanned. ?I'm > sure > the one film that looked bad could have looked much better had it been > developed differently. ?What I thought was interesting is that the test > seemed to highlight a bias against T-Max films by many. > > Obviously, if you don't like T-Max 100, you are free to not like it. ?All > of > these four films are probably different enough from Techpan in various ways > that I'd rather just mention all four and try not to let my biases enter > in. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information