Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]LONG LIVE XP2--- for darkrooms, i love it! Chris - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henry Ambrose" <digphoto@telalink.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 9:14 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] C-41 negative material for B&W > Mark Rabiner wrote: > >There is much talk of increased scannablity of the C41 black and white > >films but this has not been succinctly demonstrated. > You're usually right - but not this time. > It's a fact about XP2 and T400CN. They scan better. > Those dye clouds let light through to the CCDs and give a much finer > result than any conventional 400 film for scanning. Silver particles are > opaque. You'll get varying degrees of artifacts around them and the grain > is often exaggerated. Finer grain films to a lesser extent. > >It makes sense that if one gets rid of his darkroom printing why bother with > >making the negs as well. > >XP2 is great stuff but will it replace Neopan 1600 in Xtol?? Delta 100 in > >Xtol? or even Delta 400. > >Not for me. I'd rather run it myself and control it's output and know it's > >going > >to last. > Now you're talking. > C41 B&W films are not a replacement for conventional flims. > They're in addition too those films. A new flavor. > > Henry > CAN I HAVE CHOCOLATE SAUCE ON MY ICE CREAM?