BTW Panatomic X is still very much alive as is Kodak XX. I use Panatomic X in the 5X7 roughly 40% of the time. And the tonality is indeed magnificent. Available from B&H Photo and others.
BTW Panatomic X is still very much alive as is Kodak XX. I use Panatomic X in the 5X7 roughly 40% of the time. And the tonality is indeed magnificent. Available from B&H Photo and others.
.....and of course the "link" just takes you to B&H's home page for some nice free advertising for them as usual. Sorry. If you'll copy this address and paste it into your address bar it will take you to their aerial recon film page.
http://www01.bhphotovideo.com/default.sph/FrameWork.class?FNC=ParentAc tivator__Aproduct_html___CatID=356___SID=EC82C928870
Aerial reconn with a 5x7 field view camera-that's what I call Back to the Future. But why not just use glass plates-in the multi-winder back. Be careful stepping out onto that biplane wing. Waldo Pepper Sr. !!!
Tonality, luminosity, brilliance, crispness, gradatiion, snap, crackle, pop!
Photography is probably the most subjective of art forms and carries with it the most subjective terminology to describe qualities in a print. If everyone who has contributed to this post were to photograph the same subject under favorite lighting conditions and with format, film, developer and paper of choice (don't forget post printing techniques: toning, bleaching etc), you would have an equal number of different interpretations of the subject, each one displying some or all of the above terms as defended by the photographer.
So it really is "meaningless chatter". If you expose enough film and make enough prints and have what you consider an excellent print to use as an example, everyone who persues his craft seriously will have his own definition of what tonality is.
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