Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Christer Almqvist wrote: > > Otherwise mostly brilliant sunshine. > > > > Film was Tri-X and HP-5. > > > ... two questions: (1) did you rate the films at 50 or 100, I rated the film at EI 320, and used an incident meter to measure open shadow. I base exposure on that, then underdevelop. I think I will be using EI 200 for HP-5 in the future, for a little more shadow detail: I've been rating it at EI 250 and having the incident dome half in shadow, half in sunlight. Works, but a bit too little shadow detail in the negs. It got exposed at EI 320 in London because I forgot to reset the lightmeter between the Tri-X and the HP-5. Lesson: Stick to one film ;-) >and (2) what film do you use when there is no brilliant sunshine, > a kind of weather I remember from my early days in Sweden :+) Basically, I use HP-5 for almost everything. The shop in Stockholm I was in when I needed film before leaving didn't have Ilford, so I bought the Tri-X instead (since I know how it behaves). I'm going to try Fujipan 1600 at EI 800 for interior stuff and see how that faires in XTOL at 70% of the recommended time. And for this summer, I'm going to try Delta 100 @ EI 50 or EI 80 with yellow filter for some more sky detail. > One more Q: did the guy who sold you that lens recently give you the > films for free with the lens? OK, I have no clue what you're on about here... ;-) M. - -- Martin Howard, Grad. Schl. for Human-Machine Interaction, | HMI/IKP, Linkoping University, SE-581 83 Linkoping, Sweden.| Just Tel: +46 13 28 5741; Fax: +46 28 2579; ICQ: 354739 | say "DOOH" E-mail: marho@ikp.liu.se; www.iav.ikp.liu.se/staff/marho/ +------------