On Feb 5, 2007, at 2:28 PM, John Francis wrote: >> Whatever did you do when you were shooting with 35mm film? Any color >> film over ASA 800 is pretty much crap, and even ASA 400 is crap when >> you get to an 11x14 inch print. > > Portra 800 wasn't bad. And I certtainly wouldn't call Kodak's 400 > speed > version of Portra, or their previous 400 film (what was that? > Sentra 400?) > crap, even for large prints (assuming you think you can go larger than > 8x12 from 35mm).
I think one ought to be able to get 11x magnification out of film, more like 15-16x, but only with film that's of adequate quality, properly exposed and processed, focused well. I've seen very little ASA 400 color film from 35mm format that I would be happy to make 11x14 prints with that was more than ASA100. B&W? Yes; more can make it to a decent sized print at least. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
