Re: [Leica] New Kodak C41 B&W

["Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>]

BD-
I got a couple of rolls and hope to test them on the FA170 printer at work
this weekend. I talked to a couple of our lab people who have printed it. It
uses the T400CN channel, but the base has a darker mask- supposedly closer
to the Gold mask, and hopefully, it'll print a better B&W on color paper. I
report back as soon as I get some results! I am going to shoot it at several
different E.I. and see what shakes out!

Dan
- -----Original Message-----
From: B. D. Colen <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
To: Us, Leica-Users@Mejac. Palo-Alto. Ca.
<leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 11:15 AM
Subject: [Leica] New Kodak C41 B&W


>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.
>