Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/06/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Joe Berenbaum wrote: <<<This film sounds very much like Ilford XP-2. Is there any important difference between the two?>>>>>>> Hi Joe, This film stays a neutral colour so that you can use filters for printing on multigrade papers. It has the appearnce of B&W negs and an extremely fine grain. Whats amazing is it gets finer grained the slower you rate it. No I don't have a clue how they do it, but we have shot frames at ASA 50 and 800 on the same roll and all the negs appear printable. The colour lab made B&W contacts that look like B&W and this week we are ordering prints to compare what we get in my darkroom. At the moment on first look, I think this could give B&W a big shot in the arm for those who do not own a darkroom, but would like to shoot B&W much like they shoot colour neg film. ted