BTW,
Funny you should ask about Scala 200X. Just got a roll of it back from the
Florida lab today! Shot it in the Contax IIIa using the cyan filter and
got some *very* interesting looking slides back. Several of the outdoor
shots look like stills from a motion picture set dating to the late 1920's
and early 1930's. Much different from what one would expect with
panchromatic film and an entirely different set of contrasts compared to
what one would get using one of the more traditional yellow, orange or red
filters for landscapes. Even so, some elements of them have much higher
contrast . . . anything red near anything white in particular (which
completely "bleaches" to pure white).
I've found that using a B/W filter of any color on a scene that contains
representation of the entire spectrum increases apparent contrast compared
to using no filter. What's different among the ones with which a filter
was used is where the contrast increase occurs. If a scene is lacking a
significant portion of the spectrum, the result can be either lower or
higher contrast depending on color filter selected.
-- John Lind
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