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Old October 19th 05, 07:17 PM
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Efke 25 is good film, very fine grain. Here's an Efke25 photo. Photo
downsampled from 900mb rather badly Sorry.
http://elearning.winona.edu/staff_o/jjs/f/


Looks good. May try the film some day. It seems a standard developer can
do it, but Rodinal is not known to be a fine grain developer?


Rodinal does not create fine grain, but it does encourage acutance
(sharpness). It was fine for Agfa APX 100 in 120, and is very good for
Efke 25. It doesn't hurt the latter's ability to be enlarged considerably.
Grain is my friend because it can give sharper looking images than
grainless... (but to stay on topic, Who need sharp clouds? )

Yes, use a different developer if you prefer finer grain.


Does EFKE suggest a developer?
When we have EFKE 25 we don't miss APX 25?

I think I should learn to view the grains as a kind of art.
The software filters which can remove grains also remove a lot of real
information. So until now the images looks best without much "Photoshop
tricks".
It is interresting how fine grained a BW film can be in the dark and middel
tone areas where
the plane of focus is.

Max