Juan Buhler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been shooting a bit more film lately. Because of the istD, I'm > spoiled with having color info when I do conversions to black and > white. So I was thinking I'll shoot some color negative film, and do > the same conversion I do with the files from the istD. > > I don't know much about color film. What iso 400 film should I look > for, and how do they compare to, say, Tri-X in terms of grain, dynamic > range, etc?
Hi Juan, I don't know if this may be of any help, but I did a shoot in the past where I had to print on b/w paper a shot from colour negative film (it was Kodak Supra 800). IMO there is no colour negative film that gets printed in b/w this well, but the Supra 800 was (is it still available somewhere??) definitely similar enough to the Fuji Superia 400 Shel pointed out wrt grain and latitude (a tiny bit better, but not really something that makes the difference). I don't know about the comparison with the Tri-X, though (still have a couple of it somewhere, but never decided when I could use it...) Hope this helps. Ciao, Gianfranco _ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
