Re: speed of paper versus film

From: George L Smyth <glsmyth_at_domain.name.suppressed>
Date: Thu 09 May 2002 - 16:20:12 PDT

--- lwilkinson@schilli.com wrote:
> I'm struggling to understand the relationship between film and photographic
> paper.
>
> Specifically, calculating exposures, etc.
>
> Where film may be considered ASA 100, paper may be considered P100.
>
> Obviously, it's not the same 100...but what's the relationship?

There is no relationship, the two mean entirely two different things.

FWIW, you may wish to use EI 6 as a starting point in your testing, as most
papers hover in that range.

Cheers -

george

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Received on Thu May 9 16:19:08 2002

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