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Robert Kennedy said:

Well, this is mainly for portraiture, and I WANT that old look.

Which is why 25 is WAAAAY too fast for me. I need an ASA of 1/2 or 1.

Why? If you notice on a lot of old portraits, the features are very soft. Some of this is the lens, but a lot of it is from the exposure times. I've seen work done with nice, clean modern Rodenstocks on plates that is very soft. Mainly because the model is holding for 1 or 2 seconds. Which gives just enough blur to really make it interesting. Plus the DOF is pretty shallow since you are almost always wide open.

Now, I COULD do this with Ilford Ortho, but I am not inclined to carry around that many ND filters.

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