Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/06/23

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Subject: Re: film not dead in 20 years....
From: nfrnkish@tcd.ie (Neil Frankish)
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 11:03:30 +0100

>At 09:53 21/06/97 EDT, you wrote:
>
>>Speaking about film, have any of you tried the new Kodak Chromegenic B&W >C41
>>film?  I have been experimenting with it and it's quite incredible for
>>quality.
>>And just like shooting colour neg film you whip it into the lab, they
>>soup >and
>>give you B&W contacts that are B&W! And not a sick looking sepia.
><snip>
>>This film is wild, as you can be shooting outside at ASA 100 and then go
>>inside
>>reset the meter to 800 and continue shooting exposures on the same roll
>>and the
>>negs are capturing the light and producing beautiful negatives.
>
>This film sounds very much like Ilford XP-2. Is there any important
>difference between the two?
>
>Joe Berenbaum

My understanding is that it is very much like XP-2, except that it has a
background colour cast so that it can print on colour paper. Iv'e used XP-2
with good results, although my lab changes paper for XP-2. I've enlarged
XP-2 negs on standard multigrade B&W paper, I don't know what you do with
the Kodak version. Grain is very very fine, though I did some FP4 and XP-2
back to back, and I think the FP4 "stands out" more.

Neil Frankish