Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Please correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this simply indicate that >the development is too long? I would think that if you cut your >development enough, the highlights would come back to normal... > >Isaac Well, yes in the obvious way of thinking about it. Thats what I thought at first. BUT I also get some pretty flat, dull, negatives that way. There's something a bit different about this film. I'm not sure what. The curves that Ilford publishes are not too strange or out of whack but the film just does not look right. I have not shot enough of it yet but in the next week or so I'll have it licked or I'll switch films. I've been a big user of XP2 which has wonderful tonality. It also scratches very easliy. I'm trying to replace it with a conventional, 400ish film that gives very similar tones. The new Delta 400 is excellent in certain conditions using the methods I've tried. I want it to be excellent in ALL conditions - I want to LOVE it! That's why all the fuss.