Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/27

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Help! Perplexing development problem (D400/Xtol)
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 21:29:24 -0800
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> 
> 400 speed films in 4X5 still make wonderful, wonderful prints. There's
> just no grain to speak of until the print gets really big! There's no
> downside to having another choice of speed. Heck, I wish they made Delta
> 3200 sheet film.
> 
> Delta, TriX and TMax are what I can buy locally. Now I'm down to the last
> 2. I just got some Arista 400 - supposed to be private brand HP5 we'll
> see how it is.
> 
> OTOH maybe I sould just fall back on TriX and not worry with it.
> 
> Henry

ON a tripod with 4x5 F8 at 1/30 is NOT way better than f8 at 1/8 for a lot of purposes.
I can't think of an easy example of what you can do at a 30th that you can't do
at an 8th.
You can certainly shoot portraits at 1/8!! Lots of famous portraits have been
done at an 8th.
But two stops with reciprocity failure added can mean the difference between a
few seconds or a few minutes.
And some of us with ADD or week bladders or both don't make it that well
standing around for ten minutes at a time.
We start to forget what we're doing there. Or start doing the pee pee dance
which can jiggle a nearby tripod.

But hand held is a different ballgame. (And I'm talking about the first thing)


Mark Rabiner

Portland, Oregon
USA
Updated ALL MY DESIGN webpage!!
http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/
Chick the "personal work" Link!
and "tears" a few "family scans"

In reply to: Message from henry <henry@henryambrose.com> (Re: [Leica] Help! Perplexing development problem (D400/Xtol))