Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/19

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Subject: Re: OFF TOPIC. Help with low light b/w and Tmax
From: chris@chrismorrow.com (Christoper Morrow)
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 09:36:57 -0400

At 6:13 PM -0400 on 9/18/97, ted grant wrote:

> Jeff wrote:
>
> <<<but of course the most dramatic way color C41 films degrade is that
> the dyes of different colors fade at different rates, which I assume is
> less of a concern here..>>>>>>
>
> Hi Jeff,
>
> Good news is that the fading was one of the major items addressed by KODAK
> and you'll find this film isn't anything like XP2.
>
> T400CN was created to stablize the fading and changing ASA problems with
> xp2. For what it's worth the film is really worth trying a couple of rolls
> and I'm sure you'll be quite surprised.
>
> ted

Yes, and it beats spending hours in the darkroom printing.

I've gotten excellent results at two one-hour labs so far. Interestingtly
my prolab has not had much call to process any of it. Probably because
their regular customers are still shooting PlusX/TriX/HP5+, etc.

Haven't hadbig  enlargements made yet, but I can confirm that the grain is
exceedingly fine. And my clients enjoy the lower cost for 100 copies of a
picture as compared to the regular custom b/w lab prices.

Christopher Morrow		Canandaigua, NY (Beautiful Finger Lakes)

chris@chrismorrow.com