My one roll of XP2 shot in broad daylight at noon on a cloudless day was the biggest disaster of my photographic life. I respect XP2 as a great film with a lot of latitude under low contrast (shady or overcast) conditions, but truly awful in high contrast conditions...blown highlights and dense shadows. I've never tried pushing or pulling it, and my disaster roll predated my use of Photoshop. But I think that BW400 by Kodak is more forgiving in terms of latitude and dynamic range.
Jeffery On Oct 16, 2010, at 8:07 PM, Nick Wright wrote: > There is really only one thing I truly miss about digital ... the > ability to change ISO on the fly. > > Most of the time I prefer to shoot in lower light and I like my iso400 > film, but sometimes I find myself out shooting in bright daylight. > > Not a terrible problem except I'd rather not always be shooting at f/16. > > Then tonight something pinged in my memory. I seemed to recall having > heard you could shoot Ilford's XP2 at different ISOs on the same roll > and get it developed normally. > > So I hopped over to Ilford's Web site and sure enough, according to > them you can shoot XP2 at any ISO from 50 to 3200, even varying from > frame to frame, have it developed normally and get good results. > > Now everything I know about film developing etc is screaming at me > that this can not be true. > > I found very little talk on the net-at-large about it, so I turn to > the all-wise PDML for help. > > Has anyone ever done this? Does it actually work? > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
