jeudi 6 janvier 2005

Japanese Films Fuji Neopan 400 and 1600 During the past decade or so there has been a significant improvement in the overall quality of most black-and-white films. Photographers are a strange breed though and whilst some will shout out that if it's new then it must be better others will proclaim that the older emulsion types are still as good as ever. Really it's a matter of preference and what an individual photographer feels comfortable working with. After all, why change just for the sake of changing when it may have taken many hours, months, years of experimentation and many rolls of film to arrive at the so-called "perfect" combination of exposure index (EI) rating with your own camera, meter, favourite developer and development time to get the optimum balance of tonal quality, sharpness and grain (or lack of it) in a print. Update 15 June 2007 : This article has been moved and can now be read on my new expanded web site 20/20 Visions 9:37:11 PM    comment []