[Leica] From the Ilford blog - FOR LLUIS

[Peter Dzwig]

Guys,

FWIW: I started using chromogenic film at roughly the time I joined the LUG
(years ago). I found that the processing is generally straightforward for most
shops that do things like checking quality of the developer before and after
running a batch through.

The real issue is scanning. Gerry is right, there is little reason that it
should not scan well and give great tonality. HOWEVER, if you ask most
developing shops to scan it, they just treat it like a single-channel jpeg (in
my experience)

I used to get mine scanned onto CD as high res .TIFFs which gave me something
close to 24Mpixel; more than good enough for printing from and for treating as I
would RAW files.

I used Kodak 400CN. I haven't tried the Fuji, but I found that the Ilford films
tend to be a little darker.

This is a BW400CN shot:

<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/PeterDzwig/album230/album284/Camelot_120051010.jpg.html>

This is the same taken on XP2:

<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/PeterDzwig/album230/album284/Camelot_2XP220051010.jpg.html>

sorry about the glare! The only other difference is that (I think) the former
was taken on my IIIf and the latter on my M3.

BW400CN was capable of this sort of thing:

<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/PeterDzwig/album164/MillerPerfectCircle.jpg.html>

Bear in mind that all have been converted to formats and sizes that  the gallery
was happy with at the time.

Peter

On 28/12/2017 08:50, Gerry Walden wrote:
> Lluis
> 
> I started using chromogenic films when I decided the time had come to get rid of my darkroom. At that time there were a number of local places that I could get GOOD C-41 processing without handling problems etc. so it was a good alternative for me. My favourite was Kodak T-Max 400CN which (sadly) is no longer available, but I have found that the Fuji Neopan 400CN is a very good alternative which scans excellently with good contrast and virtually non-existant grain. However the problem now is that there is nowhere locally that will do professional standard C-41 processing. I never did like the Ilford version, and the suggestion that you down rate it to 200iso made it a bit of a non-starter for me.
> 
> As for printing, I cannot comment because (as stated above) I started using chromogenic when I did away with my darkroom. However I see no reason why t should not print well once you get used to it but it does tend to have a lower contrast level. It certainly scans very well.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Gerry
> 
> Gerry Walden LRPS
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> 
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> 
>> On 24 Dec 2017, at 18:37, Lluis Ripoll <lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Congratulations my friend! Great pictures! well desserved!
>>
>> I see you did a great use of chromogenic film, I think I’ve never used it… or maybe once many years ago…., at least in scanned woork theuy offer good gradation and contrast, I don’t know with enlargements on the darkroom, did you test them against the traditional enlargements from panchromatic film?
>>
>> Have a happy Christmas time!
>>
>> Best wishes
>> Lluis
>>
>>
>>> El 22 des 2017, a les 7:18, Gerry Walden <gwpics at me.com> va escriure:
>>>
>>> Just had this published by Ilford:
>>>
>>> https://www.ilfordphoto.com/pre-visualisation-black-white-photography/ <https://www.ilfordphoto.com/pre-visualisation-black-white-photography/>
>>>
>>> Gerry
>>>
>>> Gerry Walden LRPS
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>>> +44 (0)797 287 7932
>>>
>>>
>>>
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