Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] B&W Scanning
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@neteze.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 18:38:03 -0800

At 11:05 AM +0000 12/10/99, B. D. Colen wrote:
>I'm looking for thoughts regarding the best film for B&W scanning...
>
>I've been using XPSuper, and getting good results, but now find that Tri-X
>seems to scan better, in that the final results have more of the old Leica
>"three dimensional" look than the XP2...
>
>Any thoughts?

I think Tri-X does well, and TMax 100 and 400 when processed in Press 
Maxx developer. I don't like the C-41 films, but haven't tried the 
latest version of XP2 yet.
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Eric Welch
Carlsbad, CA

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