Another MF shot on a tripod, cable release, pre-release, as in the previous shot: http://www.mxsmanic.com/street.jpg (entire image) http://www.mxsmanic.com/street1.jpg (excerpt at 100% of original scan) Also as in the previous shot, I metered this with a spot meter for five minutes or so, in order to find the exposure that would best record as much detail as I could get. I was pleased to see that I got more detail than I had hoped for. The white hotel sign with the light on it was nearly washed out in the original scan. However, the detail was there, and I was able to extract the lettering clearly without increasing noise. Similarly, some of the darker shadows were _really_ black, and I was able to pull detail from those as well. The walls of the upper stories of the building in the background are clearly distinguisable in the original scan. Again, practically no grain, very high resolution. I think I shot this one at f/11 or so to get as much detail as I could. What I like about this shot is that there is practically no spot in the image that is completely blown or blocked; there is at least some detail everywhere, no matter how light or dark. Clearly Portra 400BW does well in these situations. Can anyone tell me if other chromogenic B&W films offer similar performance? If you are wondering why I ask specifically about chromogenics, it's that they tend to be both fast and fine-grained, which seems to be hard to find among conventional B&W films.
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Portra 400BW second example
2003-05-18 by Anthony Atkielski
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