Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Phototechniques this month has a review of B&W films, and says that chromogenic films should not be regarded as more archival than other color negative films, and they further assert that they have seen XP negatives which have degenerated to the point of unprintability. My XP1 and XP2 negs are less than a decade old, and are not noticeably changed from original -- at least the same enlarger settings and exposure times still worked last time i printed them. I will be switching back to halide films however, due to their perceivable superiority in accutance compared to chromogenics. to paraphrase Robert Johnson, "I don't care what you do with my negatives, babe, after i die" ted gosfield "Hans-Peter.Lammerich" wrote: > > It is the preceived opinion that conventional, silver based b&w negatives will > last longer than chromogenic films. - -- mailto:egosfield@core.com ............................... Everything has been written, but not everything has been read -- Charcot