Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Rust belt
From: Charles Dunlap <cdunlap@es.UCSC.EDU>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 10:32:44 -0800

>I plan to be travelling in pensylvania this week and will be passing a rusted
>up steel mill.  I plan to take some time to photograph this with my M3 and
>brand new 50 summicron.  Any ideas for film? I think I will be shotting
>primarily color print but maybe some chrome too.  Any thoughts on such a
>progect.  I'll be metering with a handheld minolta incident light meter so the
>sparking off the rust shouldn't affect the exposure.
>Any advice will be helpfull.
>
>--
>Michael Garmisa <elmar@webreach.com>
>30-Jun-98 17:34:59

Hmmm, Fuji Astia has nice reds and good tonality, you might give that a try
for a slide film.

For prints how about 25 ISO Kodak (used to be Ektar, maybe now Royal
Gold?). It's got high contrast, good color saturation, and very fine grain.

- -Charlie