- Location
- Manchester, UK.
This is why I can't see noise (or grain) as a reason lowering the quality of a photograph. Majority of my film based pictures are grainy, some like hellMarko, this is very typical of the 'fast' 400 ASA B&W films of the 1950s through to the 1970s.
In the 1960s, I used Adox KB14, KB17 and KB21 films for normal use. These were ASA 25, 50 and 100, respectively. KB 21 was considered 'fast'. Agfa made B&W films up to 400 ASA, which were very grainy, even using fine grain developers such as Ultrafin. Later, ASA 1600 films became available, but they were almost binary!