On 18 Dec 2001 at 8:19, Tom Rittenhouse wrote: > There are a lot of factors that have changed since the fifties. Film and > paper of course as you have mentioned. Optics, lenses are very much crisper now. > Lighting, in the fifties it was mostly hot lights and flash bulbs though a few > were using big strobes which even so give a far different look to a shot than > the small auto-strobes we use today...
What about the effect of the anti-halation layer? When was it made commonplace? I know that Kodak HIE (high speed IR) film has no AH layer, that is why the contrasty edges have a real sort of glow. Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications.html - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
