Many thanks to Mike Davis for the thoughtful and extensive post about black and white
chromes with the DR5 process.

My reply was going to be something along the lines of "it looks nice". I will try some Delta
100 using your recommendations.

I've been using PanF and rating it at an ISO of 25, which is what DR5 recommends. This
is by no means grainless film, but it has incredible accutance. It looks like Photoshop's
"unsharp mask" set at 190 or so . I used to think this film had the magical ability to make
my Sputnik's lenses sharper. I love the way this film looks when put through DR5's sepia
developer. The slides I took of Las Vegas casino exteriors at night have a warm, vintage
tone. You will see grain in large expanses of blue sky, but large expanses of blue sky
have never been one of my favorite photographic subjects. I have found Ilford PanF
processed with DR5 to have a very wide exposure latitude, and don't think I've ever had a
slide where the exposure settings I chose didn't somehow work.

I have a Sputnik slide in Brian's folio of the "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign shot at sunrise
with Ilford PanF processed in the sepia developer.

The fine grain and sharpness of this film bring out all the detail that the TL120's lenses
can resolve, and truly create the "illusion of infinite detail". This process is expensive, but
to me it's worth every penny.

Jim Harp