Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/12

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Old and New ASA Speeds
From: TTAbrahams@aol.com
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 00:10:17 EDT
 
Ken, You are right. When I started shooting in 1957 my 'teacher," an old 
grizzled photo journalist gave me a bag of Tri-X and said" What a piece of 
crap, no film rated at such a high speed can be any good. 200 ASA, grain must 
be like golfballs!" Well, he did change his mind later and switched from 
Ilford HPS and Super XX and learned to like that newfangled film after all. I 
still use it and now I actually rate it at 400 ASA, wonder what he would have 
made of that?
Tom A