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Pan F vs Delta 100

2005-10-16 by Richard Smallfield

Hello,
I was at an exhibition yesterday and got into a discussion with a photographer who'd used Pan F for a photo and I asked how she found Pan F and Delta 100 compared.

She said Pan F had finer grain because it was a lower ASA. I said that they were different technologies and Delta had tabular grain. Her reply was lower ASA = smaller grain. End of story.

So ... I had a look at some 10x15 prints of mine and from the few prints I've done, it looks like she might be right. It also depends on how aggressive I was with the curves on those images of course, as that accentuates grain, too ... 

Any thoughts?

thanks,
Richard
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