[Leica] c41 tri-X?? let's be specfic

[Summicron1@aol.com]

actually, Tri-X is not a C-41 process film, you're thinking of Kodak's new 
Chromogenic film, the name of which escapes me but which is similar to Ilford 
XP-2.

Both films are, so I have heard, excellent, but you gotta know how to use 
them. They are color film that only give you black and white images, thus 
utilizing advances in color dye technology to give wider latitude and better 
grain structure than standard black and white film can give.

To really see the best results scan them or make your own prints -- expose 
exactly at ASA 400 to be right in the middle of the gray scale of the film 
(it will allegedly give printable results if exposed anywhere from 25 to 
1600, which it will, but just barely) and then print with a slight increasee 
in contrast -- I pretty much always use a No. 3 filter.

the results are astonishing, especially if you use 120 film. It's pretty much 
all I use anymore.

charlie trentelman
Ogden, Utah
In a message dated 9/26/99 7:08:34 AM, you wrote:

>
>Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 20:27:59 -0700
>From: "Joseph E. Hayes" <jeh50@earthlink.net>
>Subject: [Leica] Re: Kodak C-41 Tri-X
>
>Anthony wrote...
>
><snip>
>
>> I have not heard good things about the C-41 TxxxCN films from Kodak, so I 
wasn't
>going to consider those (I want something over ISO 1000, anyway), but if 
there
>are any contrary opinions, I'd be interested in hearing them. <
>
><snip>
>
>I was fortunate enough to go to the SantaFe Photo Workshop last year and
>when buying film to attend, picked-up Ilford's version.  Shot it only to
>find out they would not process it the lab at the Workshop.  I would up
>bringing it to a local guy who ran it through the machine.  oh
>Boy...when I got the pics back was I suprised...
>
>Printed on color paper, it gave each image a warm "sepia toned"
>quality.  A bit disappointing at first since most of the film was
>exposed at a very special place.  Trying to save the day (and my work),
>I did find some of the images worked well in the sepia tone and
>subsquently had them enlarged and framed.
>
>I also had sent the negs to a regular lab here in Los Angeles to print
>the images in B&W.  They looked okay - not too grainy - but I think I
>would prefer to continue working with standard B&W films such as Tri-X. 
>
>Joe Hayes
>
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