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Re: [OM] B&W 400 film, need suggestions

Subject: Re: [OM] B&W 400 film, need suggestions
From: Thomas Heide Clausen <T.Clausen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 12:45:15 +0200
On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 11:16:18 +0100
Roger Wesson <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Which Ilford did you try?  XP-2 is their C-41 process
> emulsion, and personally I love it.  Lovely tones and
> it's got very wide latitude. I've done the classic
> forget-to-turn-the-film-speed-dial trick several times,
> overexposing by two stops as I use mostly 100 speed film,
> but the Ilford copes with that without a problem. 
> Printed on colour paper you get nice sepia toning.
> 
> I've also used Ilford HP5, and thought the results from
> that were excellent.  If you're not printing yourself,
> then be sure to take them somewhere decent for printing -
> don't let substandard labs put you off a good emulsion.

I do not know XP-2, but I do know that I prefer Delta400
over HP5+....

I was not always like that - I used to like HP5. Then they
did "something" and changed the name to HP5+. That
"something" also made my usual development yield grainy
negatives, for some reason, so I switched to Delta400 and
have never looked back :) I am sure that the HP5+ is a fine
film - I just never bothered to learn it.

--thomas

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  Thomas Heide Clausen
  Civilingeniør i Datateknik (cand.polyt)
  M.Sc in Computer Engineering

  E-Mail: T.Clausen@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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