I've noticed the same phenomenon, Shannon, but don't have a good explanation. Grain does appear less prominent in detailed areas, however, and since there's less detail in out of focus areas, there must be a connection.
--Ben On Apr 16, 2008, at 3:48 PM, Shannon Stoney wrote:
I made some 35mm pictures last winter using an ancient Leica and mostly HP5+. Some of the negatives are pretty grainy, even when they're only enlarged to 4x6. The graininess seems to happen in the out of focus areas, of which there are a lot because the aperture was wide open and many of the pictures were taken inside without a flash. When I use this camera outside and everything's in focus, there is usually no grain to speak of. Why is there this relationship between apparent graininess and out of focus areas?--shannon====================================================================== ======================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.
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