Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Giving the Leicas a floggin'
From: "Paul Jones" <lug@nrg666.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 12:47:26 +1000
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NPS is very grainy for a slower film, in my experience.

I'm not sure wether NPS has bigger grain size than NPH though, as i havent
really shot enough NPH to compare.

Regards,
Paul
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From: "Rob Heyman" <rheyman@bigpond.net.au>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Giving the Leicas a floggin'


> Rolfe, I have not found this to be the case with NPC, but I understand
that
> some scanners will not work as well with grain of a particular size. It is
akin
> to a moire pattern. For instance Fuji Reala on my scanner is atrocious,
with
> (apparent) grain larger than 800iso film.
>
> If you do a scan on the archive you will find a number of references to
this
> problem. Or are you saying that the actual size of the grain on the film
is
> larger than NPH?
>
> Rob
>
>
>
> Rolfe Tessem wrote:I think you'll find that NPS actually has larger grain
than
> NPH. I'm not
>
> > sure why this is, other than the fact that NPH is probably a newer film.
> > Once I figured this out, I stopped using NPS altogether and now use NPH
90%
> > of the time. The other 10% is NPZ, although I've been trying some Press
800
> > and it is also very good.
> >
> > Rolfe
> >
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