Rob,
I am really happy with Supra 400. I've gotten some outstanding landscapes as
well as 'people' shots and don't have significant complaints about grain
with it as much as other 400 speed films.
I can scan and print on my little inkjet and get fine b&w if I change the
mode to greyscale or the printer output to black. It seems silly for a lab
to print b&w negatives in any manor which does not provide b&w, but rather,
pink & white tones. They can't really think I wanted that, can they?
Is it really more expensive to print on b&w paper than it is on color paper?
Seems illogical.
Norman Unsworth
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Rob Geraghty
> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 6:43 PM
> To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> Subject: filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: Grain, Noise, et al
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> Norman Unsworth wrote:
> > Without a doubt, Rob, that's the best answer re: fundamentals.
> > I've been shooting a lot of 400 speed, albeit quality films
> > (Supra, Fuji NPH). The Supra 400 isn't too bad at all, really,
> > but I've had some very grainy results shooting NPH with a flash.
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> I haven't had the spare cash to buy 5 rolls of Supra 400 to try
> it (you can only buy 5 roll lots in Australia). It's supposedly
> "optimised for scanning" whatever that means. I've used Fuji
> Superia 400 and if it's properly exposed in bright daylight
> conditions, the apparent grain isn't too bad. I've had to use
> 400 to get sharp photos while flying in ultralight aircraft.
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> > Interestingly, I just shot 2 rolls of Kodak T400CN for a local
> > newspaper. I used Kodak mailers and when I got the pics & negs
> > back, all the pics had a pink cast (fortunately, the negs were
> > great)! I don't know the technical reason for this, although I
> > know that the CN film can be printed on either color or B&W
> > paper, but wouldn't you think the techs at the Kodak labs
> > would look at the prints and ponder whether prints with a pink
> > cast could possibly be right? Dumb.
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> I've shot quite a few rolls of T400CN. On colour paper it *will*
> have a sepia tone to it. XP2 seemed to come out bluish. It has
> to do with the base colour of the emulsion and how the colour
> paper interacts with it AFAICS. My local lab can print T400CN
> on B&W paper in their minilab, but of course it costs more, and
> neither paper gives results as good as "proper" B&W paper. I just
> get the prints on colour paper, enjoy the tone and try to guess
> what it will look like on real B&W paper. :)
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> Rob
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> Rob Geraghty harper@wordweb.com
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