[Leica] From the Ilford blog - FOR LLUIS

[Peter Dzwig]

Lluis, Gerry,

On 28/12/2017 22:42, Lluis Ripoll wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> Thank you very much for your information and examples. In my opinion Kodak  BW400CN was much better than Ilford, Maybe you have processed differently the dark areas?
> 

All of these are subject to ste amount of post-processing.

> Concerning developping I think I can obtain good developping in C-41, some years ago it was as well excellent places to develop B&W but today is better if you do it yourself  at your  preferences, concerning scanning I’ve never found a professional good service, at least at a reasonable price, I prefer scan my self too, I’m using Vuescan and I scan obtaining DNG files at 16 bit.

The great advantage with C-41 is that any photographic shop that will dev colour
films will deal with them and generally produce usable results. I had one guy
working in a local shop who was a real expert and loved developing for its own
sake.

I used his successor ONCE ONLY because she produced 1 MBit jpegs and said they
were hi-res; even though it was exactly the same machine that the other guy had
used a few days earlier! It was also evident that she had no technical knowledge.

I was paying about €13 for dev3elop and scan.

Peter


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Dr Peter Dzwig