Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nigel- I can vouch that the Kodak film with the integral mask prints on colour paper with less variation between over and under exposed negs.- you get better and more consistent print. With XP-2- the slopes are almost impossible to adjust so the prints are truly black and white. The mask, being 'red' is complementary to cyan. Since the contrast sensitive layers are influence by yellow ( low contrast) and magenta ( high contrast), then either cyan or its complement, red should have minimal effect. In any event, if you are using a dichroic head, you can neutralize the mask. All things considered, as a person who runs a minilab, I prefer T400-CN for printing on color paper, and as far as printing on B+ACY-W paper, I can see no problem. Besides, and this is just my personal opinion, I think the Kodak film exhibits finer +ACI-grain+ACI-- even though both XP2 and T400CN use dyes to form the image, and the dye particles are smaller than any silver grain, the Kodak film seems to have better definition- I would just describe it as finer grain. Dan dwpost+AEA-msn.com