Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:36 AM 19-09-97 -0400, Christopher Morrow wrote: [snip] >> 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. > >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. I dug up a roll of XP-1 that I shot about 7 or 8 years ago (the only time I ever used the film). They have faded something terrible in those years. I would estimate that 50% of the image is gone! I hope that XP-2 and the new Kodak film is more permanent than this! Dan C.