Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/02/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kodak BW CN is still available. You can buy it from B&H, or Amazon. from my iPad Sonny Carter > On Feb 25, 2015, at 7:32 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > Kodak stopped making their chromogenic black and white film (what this is > called) a few years ago but Ilford still makes XP2 which I've used this > decade to shoot film. It's embarrassingly good. Its made of dye instead > of > silver but how would you know? You can be all into darkroom chemistry and > developing and be lucky to approach it with regular black and white films > rated at 400. It seems to have the grain and sharpness of 100 films. > As far as archivalness goes regular black and white film seems to last > forever with a bit of care and luck but color neg always had a bad rep. > The reason was when you brought it back into the darkroom again to make > another print from a neg you'd printed before you count often not match the > preceding print. The various color layers faded not at the same rate so > you'd get color crossover. And there was no way to make a real good print. > This did not take years to take place but months and even weeks and some > color custom printers have told me days but I didn't see it with my own > eyes. > > XP2 only has one layer so if it fades a few percentage points you can just > add some contrast and probably match a print you'd made with it was fresh. > All my Xp2 I've shot for decades still looks good and I'd expect would > print > perfectly. Certainly scan perfectly. > > >> On 2/25/15 8:11 PM, "Ken Carney" <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote: >> >> I can second that. Ilford and Kodak make b&w films for C41 processing >> (WalMart, Walgreen etc.), and in my experience they scan better than >> conventional negatives. A downside is that they are shorter-lived, but >> in theory at least they are forever once scanned. Or, absent scanning, >> as a long-time client of mine once said, at my age I don't buy green >> bananas. >> >> Ken >> >>> On 2/25/2015 5:08 PM, Sonny Carter wrote: >>> Have you checked Walgreen's? Most of them still run C41, and you show >>> three >>> stores in town. Check the one on Houston hwy, since it is close to UH. >>> I >>> don't love their scans (at least at mine) but they do a good job of >>> processing, and I do lots of small prints up to 8x10 there. >>> >>> from my iPad >>> >>> Sonny Carter >>> >>>> On Feb 25, 2015, at 11:32 AM, Bill Clough <billclough042541 at >>>> gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> USA >>>> TEXAS >>>> VICTORIA >>>> 25 February 2015 >>>> >>>> Hi there-- >>>> >>>> Never occurred to me--until now--to look through the Leica M's >>>> viewfinder after cataract surgery. To my surprise, I now can frame and >>>> focus again. >>>> >>>> I have source for film but even the local drug stores no longer are >>>> processing film. >>>> >>>> I still have the kinder man tanks but would like to avoid all that. >>>> >>>> I'm open to any suggestions about where 35mm film still is processed >>>> professionally. >>>> >>>> Reply here are offline-- >>>> >>>> Thanks-- >>>> >>>> --Bill >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > -- > Mark William Rabiner > Photographer > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information