Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In re the HTML page--- thirty five years ago, we called this "flashing" the emulsion- a tenfold increas is about three stops, I don't think we did that well, but exposing Tri-X to a green safelight for a few seconds sure did inprove the shadow detail of our night-time shots of the high school football team!! Dan - ----- Original Message ----- From: "S Dimitrov" <sld@earthlink.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 10:15 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] re: digital noctilux vs 10X faster films? > I wouldn't sell "reduced silver content" short. I don't care if they > wind up using photo sensitive vegetable dyes. I still have to propel my > message through a myriad of mechanical limitation as it is, one more > set, or less, won't make much difference in the long run. > > Slobodan Dimitrov > > > "Dante A. Stella" wrote: > > > > Very interesting -- I saw the magic words "reduce silver content" so it of > > course will be done by film manufacturers! > > > > Robert Monaghan wrote: > > > > > don't give up on film quite yet, see ten times faster film emulsions page: > > > http://www.cnrs.fr/cw/en/pres/compress/emulsionsphoto.html > > t >