Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/18

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Subject: [Leica] Re: [RF List] New article on travel tips.
From: "Michael E. Berube" <MEB@GoodPhotos.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 10:52:27 -0500

At 11:59 PM 1/16/02 -0500, dante@umich.edu wrote:
>http://www.dantestella.com/technical/travel.html

Where he says:
>(—) Chromogenic b/w films - don't get me wrong - I like these for use in 
>my town. But T400CN and XP2 are susceptible to scratching, and taking them 
>anywhere where there is a lot of dust is asking for scratched negs. The 
>other problems with these are the lack of control over processing and the 
>lack of effect of filters.

A great essay overall Dante but I did want to point out that T400CN at 
least reacts much like "real" b/w film to filteration when printed properly.
See my PAW this last week:
http://www.goodphotos.com/OneAWk2/02wk3.html
T400CN with a Red No. 25 printed on monochrome roll paper in an Agfa 
minilab processor.

Carpe Luminem,
Michael

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