Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/05/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]No: the silver is removed in development in XP-2. On May 18, 2011, at 7:40 PM, Richard Man wrote: > XP2 and the like should last a long time since you are not worrying > about > colors. After all, it's still silver, just suspended in a dye cloud, > whatever that means :-) > > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Dan Khong <dankhong at gmail.com> wrote: > >> For most B&W work, I shoot with film. I soup my own Tri-X and send >> XP2 >> to the lab. They scan my negs into jpeg images. >> >> At the end of the day, I have a CD of film based images, my roll of >> film for archival purposes and enjoy a choice of printing either with >> my inkjet or darkroom enlarger. >> >> My workflow involves little of my time as the main bulk of it is >> handled by the scanning lab. A roll of 36 exposures also means that I >> need to be mindful and disciplined about achieving "one shot, one >> kill". With digital it is so easy to be carried away with tardiness >> and machine-gunning photography. Culling the less than desired >> digital >> images is the hard part. >> >> I have one question and hope you can help answer. Can chromogenic >> film >> (like Ilford XP2) be expected to last as long as silver halide >> emulsions like Tri-X? >> >> Dan K >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> > // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.com/blog/> > // richard's personal photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> > [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all > previous > replies in your msgs. ] > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information