Re: Re[3]: C 41 B&W film

2005-03-01 Thread brooksdj
> I hope I haven't misunderstood what you're saying; but I've heard on > some places (probably photo.net) that one can develop XP2 with > conventional/traditional B&W developers, and have it come out looking > more or less like regular negatives. Someone in

Re: Re[3]: C 41 B&W film

2005-03-01 Thread Mark Cassino
- - - Original Message - From: "Chan Yong Wei" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 6:45 AM Subject: Re: Re[3]: C 41 B&W film I hope I haven't misunderstood what you're saying; but I've heard on some places (probably photo.net) that

Re: Re[3]: C 41 B&W film

2005-03-01 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "Chan Yong Wei" Subject: Re: Re[3]: C 41 B&W film I hope I haven't misunderstood what you're saying; but I've heard on some places (probably photo.net) that one can develop XP2 with conventional/traditional B&W developers, and

Re: Re[3]: C 41 B&W film

2005-03-01 Thread Chan Yong Wei
- > Mark Cassino Photography > Kalamazoo, MI > www.markcassino.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > - Original Message - > From: "Alin Flaider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Godfrey DiGiorgi" > Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 9:02 AM > Subject: Re[3]: C 41 B&W film > > >

Re: Re[3]: C 41 B&W film

2005-02-28 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
By the time I'd moved to XP2 Super and T400CN as my only film emulsions, I was doing all digital scanning to digital print process. Overexposure down in the ASA 200 range created negatives that ran too dense for good scanning practice, a less dense negative renders better results. Of course, when

Re: Re[3]: C 41 B&W film

2005-02-28 Thread Mark Cassino
- - - Original Message - From: "Alin Flaider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Godfrey DiGiorgi" Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 9:02 AM Subject: Re[3]: C 41 B&W film Highlights are compressed at 200 but that's a small price to pay for clean shadows. Origina

Re[3]: C 41 B&W film

2005-02-28 Thread Alin Flaider
Highlights are compressed at 200 but that's a small price to pay for clean shadows. Originally I was shooting XP2 at 400 ASA as the recommended optimum sensitivity. Darker shadows than 2 EVs then comes out with blotchy, irregular grain. And it's grain all right not just noise introduced