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Subject: Re: [Leica] If you had only one B&W film/developer combo, which
From: Rei Shinozuka <shino@ubspw.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 16:53:32 -0500 (EST)

another vote for HP5+ (400) in xtol (1+3) also.

i confess one reason started using HP5+ is that it's avail in 35, 120 & 220.

also Fuji NP (800) in xtol (1+3).

- -rei


> From: "J. Gilbert Plantinga" <gilplant@hvc.rr.com>
> 
> Whatever I try, I keep coming back to HP5+ in XTOL 1:3. I shoot it at 400,
> 800, and 200. It doesn't eat fixer like the tab-grained films, highlights
> don't blow out if I decrease agitation at the end of the development, and I
> LIKE it's particular grain. Others don't, so try the agfa 400, or tri-x.
> Today's Tri-x is not the same film I learned on in the '60s. I think it's
> really just a question of getting one film and shooting it exclusively for a
> year, sort or like the David Allen Harvey 1 body - 1 lens concept.
> 
> Gilbert
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