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Subject: [OM] Re: B & W Film recommendation
From: Siddiq <iddibhai@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 00:23:24 -0700
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 14:23:15 -0700 (PDT), AG Schnozz <agschnozz@xxxxxxxxx>  
wrote:

> Ilford XP2, without a doubt.  He definitely didn't steer you
> wrong.  Just be careful about OVER-exposing.  It's forgiving,
> but, but the shoulder kicks in so low that there is no
> straight-line section.  If you want to give it an extra 1/3 stop
> to protect shadow detail, that's ok, but I wouldn't be shooting
> it at 160 or 200.  Highlight details hold very well, but tonal
> separation suffers due to the looooonnnnng shoulder.
>
> When shot at 160 or 200, XP2 becomes a bit too dense.  It's
> already a stop slower in the darkroom (enlarger) due to base
> density, and that extra stop of emulsion density really
> lengthens your enlarger time.

dunno if the local minilab goofed, but the last few rolls of XP2, shot at  
various EI, the best results were had with gross overexposure (meaning 1  
stop over the indicated incident metered value). shot at 400, it was ok,  
and even slightly under (limited by aperture/shutter values in low light),  
things got mucky awfully quick.

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/S
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