Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I shot the roll Kodak sent me @400. It was terrible. Very low contrast. Ken Wilcox >I've been out of town and madly deleting alot of messages without >reading..sorry...has there been any discussion of the new Kodak C41 >B&W....I think it's Called Black&White +.....they claim a good range of >50 to 1600...with the only change in results being that up to three >stops over gives you finer grain, while up to two under increases >grain...it's alleged to be a 400 film with the grain of a 200...There >was a write up in one of the photo mags..maybe Peterson's...that made it >sound pretty good, although if I'm not mistaken there was no discussion >of comparison to TMX CN or Illford XP2 Super.....My son saw some negs a >friend of his at work shot with a sample batch and he said that the >stuff shot at 1600 had a lot of good detail and contrast.,....anybody >know anything more? > >B. D. - ---- Ken Wilcox Carolyn's Personal Touch Portraits Davison Middle School preferred---> <wilcox@tir.com> 600 Dayton, Davison, MI 48423 <kwilcox@gfn.org>