Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]XP2 is the better C-41 for "wet" darkroom work even though I have had great results with Portra 400 B&W in the darkoom. Exposure times are almost doubled though because of the orange layer. Sharp and almost grainless 16x20's. I have some XP2 20x24's that look excellent. 4x6 prints are just proofs, nothing more. Chris New Orleans - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Howard" Subject: Re: [Leica] Developers for Scanning Negs......was Rodinal and spots (was: xtol replacement) > For me, scanning is, and probably always will be, a secondary means of > producing images. Although I currently do significantly more scanning > than printing, I want to retain the option of printing all my negatives > in the future -- for when I have a proper darkroom. It's not that I > necessarily consider silver prints better thank inkjet prints -- I just > like the aesthetics of silver prints more. > > The Kodak C-41 B&W films which incorporate the orange backing layer, > make it easy to obtain prints in a commercial minilab on colour paper, > at the expense of printing in the home darkroom on variable contrast > paper. While Portra 400 B&W certainly does produce stunning looking > 4x6" prints from the minilab, my chief photographic interest doesn't > lie in stunning looking 4x6" prints from the minilab. > > M. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html