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rich815
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True enough Jerevan, and I hope I did not seem to be jumping on you. 
Of course it was an opinion and I understood as such, just pointing it out with one of my peeves lately!
There was a post not long ago where someone said they would like to shoot something with high contrast and someone replied with the simple line: "Use Neopan 1600, it's really contrasty!" with no other statement about what it is that might make that film contrasty, under what conditions, what developer and development technique, what exposure rating, etc., and no Neopan 1600 is NOT strictly a high contrast film. But it can be!
The whole idea behind us using traditional B&W films and doing our development is for the control, primarily, of tonality and contrast. We are not beholden to some kind of template that each film will give us no matter what, and I'm trying to perpetuate more of that attitude and expanded discussion, otherwise one might as well shoot XP2 or color neg and desaturate.
Of course it was an opinion and I understood as such, just pointing it out with one of my peeves lately! There was a post not long ago where someone said they would like to shoot something with high contrast and someone replied with the simple line: "Use Neopan 1600, it's really contrasty!" with no other statement about what it is that might make that film contrasty, under what conditions, what developer and development technique, what exposure rating, etc., and no Neopan 1600 is NOT strictly a high contrast film. But it can be!
The whole idea behind us using traditional B&W films and doing our development is for the control, primarily, of tonality and contrast. We are not beholden to some kind of template that each film will give us no matter what, and I'm trying to perpetuate more of that attitude and expanded discussion, otherwise one might as well shoot XP2 or color neg and desaturate.
