Niall,
you need to see the difference. Obviously the difference is in the negative and not on the print so only parameters that are affected by film behaviour can be seen (e.g. not the tone of the paper etc. sometimes people mix this and think a sepia toned picture must have been taken on an old style film ;-)
Usually what you can see is that the shaddows have rhicher details and the oveall tonal range expands more thus making the images more like the reality. You can see better if surfaces have been wet or dry and all the textures become more alive.
Other hand: if you keep shooting the same film format: more grain.
You need to test this for yourself. As I said before for some people a modern film is the best choice and for others not.
Everyone has to make up his mind and the best way is to simply try a roll and then stick to it or not.
Ilford: They announced yesterday that all b&w products will be stopped.
This does not surprise me as the situation was devastating over the past years.
These huge factories were living on third world export markets of countires which were sofar behind that b&w actually still was a mass market product.
With these countries moving rapidly towards digital the big plants will have to be shut down.
These markets only I expect to be over 20x bigger than the whole worlds artists photographers demand together.
I saw a nice thread on apug.org where people asked agfa to start selling APX sheetfilm again. 100 photographers or so signed it of the total of 2500 APUG members.
Nice try but far away from reality.
Regards,
Mirko
(Dieser Beitrag wurde zuletzt bearbeitet: 26-08-2004, 10:52 AM von Mirko Boeddecker.)
you need to see the difference. Obviously the difference is in the negative and not on the print so only parameters that are affected by film behaviour can be seen (e.g. not the tone of the paper etc. sometimes people mix this and think a sepia toned picture must have been taken on an old style film ;-)
Usually what you can see is that the shaddows have rhicher details and the oveall tonal range expands more thus making the images more like the reality. You can see better if surfaces have been wet or dry and all the textures become more alive.
Other hand: if you keep shooting the same film format: more grain.
You need to test this for yourself. As I said before for some people a modern film is the best choice and for others not.
Everyone has to make up his mind and the best way is to simply try a roll and then stick to it or not.
Ilford: They announced yesterday that all b&w products will be stopped.
This does not surprise me as the situation was devastating over the past years.
These huge factories were living on third world export markets of countires which were sofar behind that b&w actually still was a mass market product.
With these countries moving rapidly towards digital the big plants will have to be shut down.
These markets only I expect to be over 20x bigger than the whole worlds artists photographers demand together.
I saw a nice thread on apug.org where people asked agfa to start selling APX sheetfilm again. 100 photographers or so signed it of the total of 2500 APUG members.
Nice try but far away from reality.
Regards,
Mirko
