Charles, wow ... I've never even seen a roll of XP1. I've always assumed it must have existed at one point, seeing the new stuff is labeled XP2, but wow.
Jeffery, you might want to give XP2 another shot. Some of my favorite shots are on it taken in very bright sunlight. http://flic.kr/p/7REseX I love it and shoot almost nothing else right now. I'm just curious if anyone here has tried the iso 50 thing. I just finished up my last roll of it, but I'm hoping to make it to town tomorrow and get some more. I'll post samples at the different ISOs when I get a chance. ~nick http://www.nickdavidwright.net On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Charles Robinson <charl...@visi.com> wrote: > On Oct 16, 2010, at 20:07, Nick Wright wrote: >> >> 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 shot a roll of, I think, XP1 back in May of 1982. I figured it would be > perfect for a concert situation... K-1000 with the Takumar 135mm f2.5 on it. > > In theory, it handled a wide range of cruddy exposure choices. In reality, I > was left with something that wasn't quite brilliant on the whites and not > really great in the blacks, despite a lot of heavy post-processing. > > http://charles.robinsontwins.org/photos/1982/john_watts/index.html > > So.. it kinda works, but it's a niche film that I wouldn't bother with again. > I know I didn't after this. > > -Charles > > -- > Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com > Minneapolis, MN > http://charles.robinsontwins.org > http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson > > > -- > 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.
