Ahhh the good old days of shooting film!! I miss my old Hasselbalds.
Especially when you could still get Panatomic-X 32 ASA in 120
format.or Kodachrome!!
I loved the range of Pan-XI remember it being similar to a
platinum print for contrast rangevery subtlelong toe.
Played around
, Jeff Zedic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Jeff Zedic [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Film Resolution Publication
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Date: Sunday, November 16, 2008, 4:22 AM
Ahhh the good old days of shooting film!! I miss my old
Hasselbalds.
Especially
35mm can shoot great high resolution photos. Shoot ASA400 film with a small
lens and you get the crappy 35mm images mentioned in the previous post.
Shoot with a professional quality lens with plenty of light gathering
ability and everything changes.
All depends on lens quality, film quality and a
Standard high quality magazine printing is 150 lines per inch in four
color -- super high resolution isn't necessary. However, a decent
drum scanner IS if you want adequate density range to get good
reproduction.
Lets see, 150 lpi times 10 inches is 1500 pixels, and 35mm film is
just
Some of the most stunning photos I've seen in magazines are shot on
35mm Kodachrome (what speed is that, about ASA 25?)
With the migration to digital and the exceeding demands of Kodachrome
processing, it's all but gone. I think I recall reading that there is
only ONE processor in the United
Allan Streib wrote:
Some of the most stunning photos I've seen in magazines are shot on
35mm Kodachrome (what speed is that, about ASA 25?)
With the migration to digital and the exceeding demands of Kodachrome
processing, it's all but gone. I think I recall reading that there is
only ONE
Yeah, the Kodachrome 25 was great stuff (also available in iso 64 and
for a brief time, 200) -- resolution is greater than 100 lines per mm
(about 15,000 pixels per inch), but processing was (is) a nightmare.
Lasts forever, too -- I'm in the slow process of scanning in all my
mother's
Some of the most stunning photos I've seen in magazines are shot on
35mm Kodachrome (what speed is that, about ASA 25?)
K2 was 25 nominally. You could get it in 64 and 200, and
the photoflood stuff was 40. (I think K1 was around 12 or so,
which is what your older images would have been. You
That MicroNikkor is a great lens, but the mid 70's Vivitar Series 1
90 mm is better, at all aperatures and distances. Not a cheap lens,
though! List was $349 or so in 1978.
Kodachrome was available in 16mm initially (1934, I think), then
medium format (120), sheet of all sizes, and 35mm
LPI and pixels don't match up very well - for one thing, lpi is line
pairs per inch. A rough equivalent is to double the pixels to equal
lpi. I read an article on the details years ago, but have forgotten
most of them.
The lines are alternating black and white - one b/w pair counts as one
'line'
I loved Tech Pan - started using it when it was a special order item
and only had a number - pre-name. We used it for BW aerial
photography - used M Leicas and 50mm Summicron lens. The red bias of
Tech Pan coupled with the extremely high resolution and extremely fine
grain menat that your ability
, November 15, 2008 4:00 PM
To: Mercedes Discussion List
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Film Resolution Publication
LPI and pixels don't match up very well - for one thing, lpi is line
pairs per inch. A rough equivalent is to double the pixels to equal
lpi. I read an article on the details years ago, but have
120 film suffers badly from lack of film plane flatness -- it's thin
film rolled into a tight spool, then unwound intermittantly and
stretched across a 6 cm square hole very slightly looser than the
paper backing. Not an ideal situation, and the older the film, the
worse the problem.
Very true - the reverse winding of the film in the Hassy mag was
supposed to help with film curl. The Tech Pan is on a thinner base
than most film - making the situation worse. Somehow the Leicas
handled it very well. Definitely better than the Canon F1 and Nikon
F3.
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