Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/05/18

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Subject: [Leica] Hot news! There is life in film yet.
From: richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 17:40:39 -0700
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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
>
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Replies: Reply from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Hot news! There is life in film yet.)
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