Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/05/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]XP2 and the like should last a long time since you are not worrying about colors. After all, it's still silver, just suspended in a dye cloud, whatever that means :-) On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Dan Khong <dankhong at gmail.com> wrote: > For most B&W work, I shoot with film. I soup my own Tri-X and send XP2 > to the lab. They scan my negs into jpeg images. > > At the end of the day, I have a CD of film based images, my roll of > film for archival purposes and enjoy a choice of printing either with > my inkjet or darkroom enlarger. > > My workflow involves little of my time as the main bulk of it is > handled by the scanning lab. A roll of 36 exposures also means that I > need to be mindful and disciplined about achieving "one shot, one > kill". With digital it is so easy to be carried away with tardiness > and machine-gunning photography. Culling the less than desired digital > images is the hard part. > > I have one question and hope you can help answer. Can chromogenic film > (like Ilford XP2) be expected to last as long as silver halide > emulsions like Tri-X? > > Dan K > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.com/blog/> // richard's personal photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous replies in your msgs. ]