Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I've been out of town and madly deleting alot of messages without reading..sorry...has there been any discussion of the new Kodak C41 B&W....I think it's Called Black&White +.....they claim a good range of 50 to 1600...with the only change in results being that up to three stops over gives you finer grain, while up to two under increases grain...it's alleged to be a 400 film with the grain of a 200...There was a write up in one of the photo mags..maybe Peterson's...that made it sound pretty good, although if I'm not mistaken there was no discussion of comparison to TMX CN or Illford XP2 Super.....My son saw some negs a friend of his at work shot with a sample batch and he said that the stuff shot at 1600 had a lot of good detail and contrast.,....anybody know anything more? B. D.