[Leica] Scanning silver halide films - which one scans best? - OT

[jls at runbox.com (Jeffery Smith)]

I have tried HP5+ for scanning (shot at 800 and developed in Ilfotec DD-X), 
and I find it to be a bit "chalky & sooty". I have been praying that 
someone would develop a home brew for chromogenic B&W films (an alternative 
to C-41 without all of the temperature restraints), but none has surfaced.

BD, what do you use to soup the Tri-X? I understand your rationale re: the 
cart and horse, but the only films I have found easy to scan to date have 
been chromogenic (but the Agfa 100 shows some real promise).

JLS

At 03:49 PM 5/17/2004, you wrote:
>Not to start a flame war, but it seems to be this is letting the cart
>decide where the horse should pull it. If one prefers Tri-X to Delta
>400, figure out how best to scan it, don't just switch films because the
>other "scans better." I have to say, and I think have before, that I
>don't get the complaints about scanning tri-x.....
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
>Jeffery Smith
>Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 4:44 PM
>To: Leica Users Group
>Subject: [Leica] Scanning silver halide films - which one scans best? -
>OT
>
>
>Practical Photography touts the following three films as being good for
>scanning:
>
>Ilford Delta 400
>
>Agfa 100 APX
>
>Fuji Acros 100
>
>If you use and scan any of these three films successfully (i.e., find
>that
>they scan WELL), please email me offlist with which developer you use.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Jeffery
>
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