Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm doing all digital scanning of the negs. The blown highlight image that I got that hurt the most was in the chess series: http://www.jeffery-nola.com/Chess9.html Here, the white chess pieces are gone and no amount of manipulation would bring them back. It's possible that some serious burning in the darkroom could yield something. Jeffery - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Rolfe Tessem Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 3:13 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Slightly OT: C-41 b&w films Jeffery Smith wrote: > Let me just barge in here <g>. XP2 is susceptible to blown highlights > when shot at 400. If you rate it lower, it blows them out even worse. > If you rate it higher, it looks grainier. T400CN seems to be less > likely to do this. Jeffery, This just hasn't been my experience. In fact, my observation is that as you overexpose XP2, the highlights just shoulder off nicely. In fact, many people expose it at EI200 for exactly this quality, that and the fact that grain decreases with extra exposure. I agree that 400 is the max EI at which this film should be rated. When I tried T400CN, it seemed like a perfectly good film, just more difficult to print in a wet darkroom. I think this was a case where Kodak couldn't make up its mind whether the film should be designed to be printed on B&W or color paper, so it stuck it somewhere in the middle :-). T400CN is truly not ideal for either one (which is why Portra was created), but it certainly does seem to scan nicely. Rolfe - -- Rolfe Tessem | Lucky Duck Productions, Inc. rolfe@ldp.com | 96 Morton Street (212) 463-0029 | New York, Ny 10014 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html