oh yeah, Faster is better in that you can "slow down" fast films with simple ND filters IF YOU REALLY NEEDED TO, but there is no way to "speed up" slower films in such as simple way and without losing quality the way push processing does.
JCO -----Original Message----- From: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 12:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: B&W developers and Tri-x ?? Rarely is all else equal ... and faster film, as I said, with many cameras, does not allow as much use of wider apertures. Faster film is not better, it's just faster. YMMV, and obviously it does. Shel > [Original Message] > From: J. C. O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 10/24/2004 9:20:45 AM > Subject: RE: B&W developers and Tri-x ?? > > Faster film speed is almost always better all else being equal. It > allows use of faster shutter speeds with same aperture/DOF. > The only time shutter faster speeds are a problem > is if you end up needing a speed faster than your camera's > top speed or you actually want to blur motion, both of which are very > rare situations. > The faster film speeds HELP/IMPROVE nearly almost all of the time.
