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Old 19th November 2020, 12:41 PM
RickEmmanuel RickEmmanuel is offline
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Default 400 iso B/W film shoot out. 2017. TMax, Tri X, HP5, Foma

Got a spare hour during lockdown! What better way to confirm/smash-to-pieces one's prejudices than a good, old fashioned American shoot-out. Bound to stir controversy; even grouchiness. Forgive me if some have already seen this and have already commented. Yet, gotta hand it to this guy, he's thorough to a T(grain) . He subjects 13 films to exhaustive in-studio tests for tonality/contrast, grain, shadow detail, and edge sharpness which he calls halation (which I thought was something else). Innate subjectivity creeps in to many of these tests of eye/brain response. My interest lay in the intrinsic image structure of each film and an alternative to advertiser/dealer copywriting which usually says every film is darn good. He chooses HC-110 as his standard dev. However, spoiler alert: Bottom two films out of 13 tested- Berger Pancro & T-Max at 54 points. Top two - HP5 score 68 and Kentmere score 67. Don't forget that well-used adage about beauty being hidden in someone's eye.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG02lCyAuqg
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