Re: [Leica] New Kodak C41 B&W

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Thanks Dan and all others who responded - Dan, I'm particularly interested in
negative quality, as oppossed to how well it prints on color paper. I'm now
shooting with XP2 Super, scanning it, and printing it as B&W with an Epson
Stylus 700.....

Dan Post wrote:

> BD-
> I got a couple of rolls and hope to test them on the FA170 printer at work
> this weekend. I talked to a couple of our lab people who have printed it. It
> uses the T400CN channel, but the base has a darker mask- supposedly closer
> to the Gold mask, and hopefully, it'll print a better B&W on color paper. I
> report back as soon as I get some results! I am going to shoot it at several
> different E.I. and see what shakes out!
>
> Dan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: B. D. Colen <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
> To: Us, Leica-Users@Mejac. Palo-Alto. Ca.
> <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Date: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 11:15 AM
> Subject: [Leica] New Kodak C41 B&W
>
> >I've been out of town and madly deleting alot of messages without
> >reading..sorry...has there been any discussion of the new Kodak C41
> >B&W....I think it's Called Black&White +.....they claim a good range of
> >50 to 1600...with the only change in results being that up to three
> >stops over gives you finer grain, while up to two under increases
> >grain...it's alleged to be a 400 film with the grain of a 200...There
> >was a write up in one of the photo mags..maybe Peterson's...that made it
> >sound pretty good, although if I'm not mistaken there was no discussion
> >of comparison to TMX CN or Illford XP2 Super.....My son saw some negs a
> >friend of his at work shot with a sample batch and he said that the
> >stuff shot at 1600 had a lot of good detail and contrast.,....anybody
> >know anything more?
> >
> >B. D.
> >