Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I sometimes find the chromogenic films are useful when I'm taking B&W pictures of a friend's wedding or something similar and I want a set of prints to give to the friend, but with the freedom to print up one or two of the best shots properly. >>> Francesco <fls@san.rr.com> 23/February/1999 08:04am >>> Wow, for all that added work and hassle, I might as well just develop my own TMAX, and forget T400CN! Francesco At 09:49 AM 2/22/99 , you wrote: >snip >> >>Secondly, some negatives do seem quite flat and take some work to get >>a decent print from. I have to split print a number to get the blacks right. >> >>Regards >>Gareth Jolly > >snip > >I agree. > >The *new* Ilford XP2 Super (not the XP2 400) comes much closer to true b&w >films than the Kodak T400-CN. > >However, you *must* go to a high quality lab if you want excellent result. >And there the cost is at least double or thrice that which supermarket >charge. Make sure you go to a lab that is connected over telephone to (say) >Agfa and where the chemistry is tele-analyzed at the beginning of each >working day by a computer and where the chemicals are then brought up to >speed automatically by the computer in the developing machine and in line >with the analysis . Ask to see the equipment they use, ask how old it is, >ask how often the analyze the chemicals, ask who does the analysis, ask how >often they renew or reactivate the chemicals. > > >-- >christer almqvist >eichenstrasse 57, d-20255 hamburg, fon +49-40-407111 fax +49-40-4908440 >14 rue de la hauteur, f-50590 regnéville-sur-mer, fon+fax +33-233 45 35 58 >