Hi Ken,
You have summarised the two aspects that I certainly noticed, yes.
The minilab did manage to ever so slightly damage the film, so I guess
it is very soft, and yes, the base is a dense, brown colour compared
to the light blue-ish of FP4 etc.
And yes, both of my posted images do suffer from poorer tonal
separation
because of the extremes of the exposure latitude used, but I am still
very
happy with the results.
It ain't no Pan F, and I still have a feeling that I will ultimately
settle
on two films in my OM-1s (Pan F in the one body, HP5+ in the other
body) but
I will certainly take a longer-term look at XP2.
Do you have any of your XP2 images to show us, Ken?
D.
On 09 Nov 2009, at 5:44 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
<snip>
> My only concerns with it in the darkroom are two-fold: The film
> scratches very
> easily and base is so dark that you have to double or triple your
> enlarger
> print exposure times.
<snip>
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