{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-blogposting-js","path":"/blog/grain_vs_size","result":{"data":{"mdx":{"body":"function _extends() { _extends = Object.assign || function (target) { for (var i = 1; i < arguments.length; i++) { var source = arguments[i]; for (var key in source) { if (Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(source, key)) { target[key] = source[key]; } } } return target; }; return _extends.apply(this, arguments); }\n\nfunction _objectWithoutProperties(source, excluded) { if (source == null) return {}; var target = _objectWithoutPropertiesLoose(source, excluded); var key, i; if (Object.getOwnPropertySymbols) { var sourceSymbolKeys = Object.getOwnPropertySymbols(source); for (i = 0; i < sourceSymbolKeys.length; i++) { key = sourceSymbolKeys[i]; if (excluded.indexOf(key) >= 0) continue; if (!Object.prototype.propertyIsEnumerable.call(source, key)) continue; target[key] = source[key]; } } return target; }\n\nfunction _objectWithoutPropertiesLoose(source, excluded) { if (source == null) return {}; var target = {}; var sourceKeys = Object.keys(source); var key, i; for (i = 0; i < sourceKeys.length; i++) { key = sourceKeys[i]; if (excluded.indexOf(key) >= 0) continue; target[key] = source[key]; } return target; }\n\n/* @jsxRuntime classic */\n\n/* @jsx mdx */\nvar _frontmatter = {\n  \"date\": \"2006-10-23T07:00:00.000Z\",\n  \"updated\": \"2006-10-23T07:00:00.000Z\",\n  \"type\": \"BlogPosting\",\n  \"title\": \"A practical demonstration of grain and film size\",\n  \"entityId\": \"031e4f40-f940-11e6-8d52-ffa6c436feb5\",\n  \"revisionId\": \"031e4f41-f940-11e6-8d52-ffa6c436feb5\",\n  \"revisionNum\": 1,\n  \"tags\": {\n    \"arts.meta.film\": [{\n      \"@id\": \"arts.meta.film.uc400\",\n      \"objClass\": \"ontag\"\n    }]\n  },\n  \"sidebar\": \"## Side note:\\n\\nMy current \\\"main\\\" camera is a [Mamiya RB67](/blog/my_mamiya_rb67/) that I purchased with the proceeds from a stock photo sale. After switching to medium format, it's really depressing to scan 35mm images. Tri-X is a grainy film in the 35mm format, but in medium format, it is just a sharp fast film that's easy to develop. Even Delta 3200 starts to look fine-grained.\",\n  \"description\": \" People in the 35mm and digital shooting worlds tend to place a lot of importance on having the sharpest lens and the finest grained film/highest resolution sensor.  People shooting 6x7 or large format have far less to worry about.  I wanted to try out Kodak E200 to see what it looked like for my next film comparison, since it was freshly-expired in 120 format at the local camera store, but I realized that I couldn't make any realistic assessment of how grainy it was in the 6x7 format.  So, after playing with UC 400 in the 35mm format, I decided I wanted to know what it looks like on my 6x7.  \",\n  \"srcImages\": [\"arts.photo.people.cutiful-07e17ca1-f940-11e6-8d52-ffa6c436feb5-infile\", \"arts.photo.people.kimberly2-07e6d3d1-f940-11e6-8d52-ffa6c436feb5-infile\"]\n};\nvar layoutProps = {\n  _frontmatter: _frontmatter\n};\nvar MDXLayout = \"wrapper\";\nreturn function MDXContent(_ref) {\n  var components = _ref.components,\n      props = _objectWithoutProperties(_ref, [\"components\"]);\n\n  return mdx(MDXLayout, _extends({}, layoutProps, props, {\n    components: components,\n    mdxType: \"MDXLayout\"\n  }), mdx(\"p\", null, \"I love Kodak\\u2019s UltraColor 400 film. It\\u2019s wonderful for my style of portraiture because it\\u2019s just about the right level of contrast and saturation to make people look the way I want them to look, and it\\u2019s easy to scan. Also, the lowered contrast compared to slide film gives you a useful overexposure latitude range (although not by that much\\u2026 after a point, UC400 doesn\\u2019t have such a beautiful tonality. It\\u2019s very much designed to be shot with a correctly metered camera.)\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"I\\u2019ve been shooting it in both 35mm and 6x7 format lately, and so that gives me a great basis for comparison.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"People in the 35mm and digital shooting worlds tend to place a lot of importance on having the sharpest lens and the finest grained film/highest resolution sensor. People shooting 6x7 or large format have far less to worry about. I wanted to try out Kodak E200 to see what it looked like for my next film comparison, since it was freshly-expired in 120 format at the local camera store, but I realized that I couldn\\u2019t make any realistic assessment of how grainy it was in the 6x7 format. So, after playing with UC 400 in the 35mm format, I decided I wanted to know what it looks like on my 6x7.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"Here\\u2019s a frame from UltraColor 400 shot in 35mm format with a 50mm lens:\"), mdx(\"a\", {\n    href: \"/photo/people/cutiful/\"\n  }, mdx(props.imgs.Img1, {\n    width: \"648px\"\n  })), mdx(\"p\", null, \"Here\\u2019s a frame from UltraColor 400 shot in 6x7 format with a 90mm lens:\"), mdx(\"a\", {\n    href: \"/photo/people/kimberly2/\"\n  }, mdx(props.imgs.Img2, {\n    width: \"1024px\"\n  })), \"The big thing that I'd like to highlight is that, at a reasonably large screen size, the 35mm version has just a perceptible touch of grain, whereas this is completely gone with a negative that's over 4 times the size of 35mm.\");\n}\n;\nMDXContent.isMDXComponent = true;","id":"65a20ef9-c0e5-5748-a66c-19d39539ecf2","fields":{"sidebar":"<h2>Side note:</h2>\n<p>My current \"main\" camera is a <a href=\"/blog/my_mamiya_rb67/\">Mamiya RB67</a> that I purchased with the proceeds from a stock photo sale. After switching to medium format, it's really depressing to scan 35mm images. Tri-X is a grainy film in the 35mm format, but in medium format, it is just a sharp fast film that's easy to develop. Even Delta 3200 starts to look fine-grained.</p>\n"},"frontmatter":{"date":"October 23, 2006","title":"A practical demonstration of grain and film size","type":"BlogPosting","description":" People in the 35mm and digital shooting worlds tend to place a lot of importance on having the sharpest lens and the finest grained film/highest resolution sensor.  People shooting 6x7 or large format have far less to worry about.  I wanted to try out Kodak E200 to see what it looked like for my next film comparison, since it was freshly-expired in 120 format at the local camera store, but I realized that I couldn't make any realistic assessment of how grainy it was in the 6x7 format.  So, after playing with UC 400 in the 35mm format, I decided I wanted to know what it looks like on my 6x7.  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