Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/06/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>At 09:53 21/06/97 EDT, you wrote: > >>Speaking about film, have any of you tried the new Kodak Chromegenic B&W >C41 >>film? I have been experimenting with it and it's quite incredible for >>quality. >>And just like shooting colour neg film you whip it into the lab, they >>soup >and >>give you B&W contacts that are B&W! And not a sick looking sepia. ><snip> >>This film is wild, as you can be shooting outside at ASA 100 and then go >>inside >>reset the meter to 800 and continue shooting exposures on the same roll >>and the >>negs are capturing the light and producing beautiful negatives. > >This film sounds very much like Ilford XP-2. Is there any important >difference between the two? > >Joe Berenbaum My understanding is that it is very much like XP-2, except that it has a background colour cast so that it can print on colour paper. Iv'e used XP-2 with good results, although my lab changes paper for XP-2. I've enlarged XP-2 negs on standard multigrade B&W paper, I don't know what you do with the Kodak version. Grain is very very fine, though I did some FP4 and XP-2 back to back, and I think the FP4 "stands out" more. Neil Frankish