Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, First, interesting times for Neopan 400. I've been running thirteen minutes in Xtol 1:3. Hmmm, I'll have to try a longer time to see what happens: although you are running about 63ml of Xtol and not the recommended 100 ml if I remember correctly. Second, where are you getting your Neopan 400? My local stores are out and B&H has been backordered. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 8/13/05, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > I went from Tri x to Delta 400 in December 1999 both in Xtol 1:3 which I > was > then just starting to use. > > With 11x14 darkroom fiber prints my Tri x looked in grain and sharpness > like > what you'd think a 250 ISO film if they made one would in D76 1:1. > That's how I gage quality, from that norm. > > When I tried out and then switched to Delta 400, a tab grain film the > results were as I suspected from what I'd seen from the tab grained Tmax > 400 > in Xtol 1:3. > The results were much better to the tune of twice or double. > A real Academy Award winner. (which tab grain films for Kodak I think was) > Tri x is much different now I hear. But the grain had not gone "tab". > > 11x14 darkroom fiber prints with Delta 400 in Xtol 1:3 looks to me like an > ISO 150 film in D76 1:1. > It looked in other words like what I've been used to seeing in medium speed > film quality. > Plus-x, fp4 and so on. Darned close. > Did not look like the 400's - (high speed) films. > > After a year or so as the 2000's started of shooting the new Neopan Acros > (100) in the Studio and Neopan 1600 for street shooting or some location > commercial work I tried out the Neopan 400 in Xtol, a non tab grain film to > see how it would stand up and was surprised that it more than held it's own > against the Delta 400. It was close. Not a clear winner. Not a clear > looser. > Looked richer maybe. Not less sharp like I'd thought. Close. > So I switched to the Neopan in 400 making myself an official full gamut > Neopan shooter. With green baseball hat and suspenders. And a free > subscription to Neopan Manga comic books. > That and three bucks buys me caf? mocha from Starbucks, another green label > company that makes a lot of money. > > My times with Delta 400 in Xtol 1:3 at 70 degrees with agitation on the > minute in normal metal tanks were pretty much the same as my Neopan 400. > Around 16 - 17 minutes. Just a tad longer than my attention span. > > > > > > Mark Rabiner > Photography > Portland Oregon > http://rabinergroup.com/ > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >