Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/16
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The Neopan 1600 is a remarkable
> film, I tend to shoot it at 800, but it can take 1600 too. It does not
push
> well above that. Grain and tonality is very good, slightly finer grain
than
> pushed Tri-X and considerably better than T-Speed or Delta-3200. I have
been
> trying it with a variety of developers, D-76/Pyro/D-23 and D-25/split
> D-76/and even with Rodinal 1: 100 for 20 minutes. The last one is
certainly
> not a fine-grain developer but if you like sharp, edgy grain it is good.
> Works well with the Noctilux and I will try it with the 90 APO/Asph later
> this month.
You *MUST* try neo 1600 with diafine... I shoot it @2400 and get
wonderful results. Shadow detail can suffer, but there is no blocking of the
highlights and a wonderfully smooth grain pattern. I use this combo qite a
bit with my 75 'lux and 35 ASPH summicron. It is my favorite combo so far...
Isaac