Digital BW, The Print

It was very popular in the early Seventies due mostly to the "look"
which boiled down to the grain the incredibly long tonal scale. Many
users rated it at 800 or even 400 to get the effect they were
after...Kodak introduced a bunch of other "recording film" types with
different numbers that were faster and much finer grain (not
interesting looking)...the difference between "recording films" at
3200 and TriX at that speed is that the recording films had all sorts
of latitude at that rating. 

The main use of these films was surveillance (sp?)....as you can
imagine, that's a dead market these days. Photo hobbiests and pros
used only a tiny percentage of what was produced.



In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Bob Michaels"
<bob@b...> wrote:
> 
> It came in a very industrial looking box, identified as "Kodak 2475
> Recording Film" with a suggested iso of 1000. But everyone pushed it.
> You just had to believe it was much faster than TriX because of the
> huge grain. 
> 
> Bob Michaels
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