Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]snip > >Secondly, some negatives do seem quite flat and take some work to get >a decent print from. I have to split print a number to get the blacks right. > >Regards >Gareth Jolly snip I agree. The *new* Ilford XP2 Super (not the XP2 400) comes much closer to true b&w films than the Kodak T400-CN. However, you *must* go to a high quality lab if you want excellent result. And there the cost is at least double or thrice that which supermarket charge. Make sure you go to a lab that is connected over telephone to (say) Agfa and where the chemistry is tele-analyzed at the beginning of each working day by a computer and where the chemicals are then brought up to speed automatically by the computer in the developing machine and in line with the analysis . Ask to see the equipment they use, ask how old it is, ask how often the analyze the chemicals, ask who does the analysis, ask how often they renew or reactivate the chemicals. - -- christer almqvist eichenstrasse 57, d-20255 hamburg, fon +49-40-407111 fax +49-40-4908440 14 rue de la hauteur, f-50590 regnéville-sur-mer, fon+fax +33-233 45 35 58