Russ
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Stu :) said:
Dammit Stu! I've been waiting for 5 minutes now. What's the hold up? 😀
Russ
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Dammit Stu! I've been waiting for 5 minutes now. What's the hold up? 😀
Russ
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Russ said:
Tight nice grain: TRUE
Beautiful Tonalities: TRUE
Scan-friendly: TRUE
Soups well in Diafine: TRUE
...More to discover...
It was mainly yours and others opinion on this film that made me try it. So far so good. Last week I got a 10 rolls set from the store and the guy asked me if I was a photo student. I replied not exactly, but he applied me the student discount anyway.
Then I told him how much I liked that film, which indeed he had never tried. In exchange from the advice, he gave me a free roll of Tri-X as he said it was the only film he used.
I bet if he has already tried Neopan and what does he think about it now 🙂
Russ
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taffer said:
Not to mention that it's cheaper than the equivalent films too. I once asked my Fuji rep, why they don't push their B/W films all that hard. He said that they just weren't interested in making much money from their B/W offerings. However, they are still putting money and R&D into their B/W and color films. Did I mention that the Neopan negatives also print up rather well onto color paper in the "one hour" Fuji Frontier machines? It's great if you need proof prints. Most of the B/W snaps on my site were scanned from the cheap one hour prints. It even amazes the operator of the one hour machine, where I normally go, how well it enlarges in this method.
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Stu :)
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Here we go...
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Stu :)
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The Cyan look...
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Stu :)
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...Purple Picket Fence...
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Stu :)
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...oh spooky...
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Stu :)
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...hell fire...
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...last but not least.
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The cross processed Ilford XP2 "negatives" came out as aqua tinted mono transparencies. The printer at the lab set the printer to read C-41 mono film and set the colour correction to auto, hence the photographs are negatives and colours are pretty wild. However... if you take some of the scans flip the curves around in Photoshop (neg to pos), the colours become slightly more realistic, not bad for mono film!
Stu 🙂
Stu 🙂
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Kris
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Whoa I love that Hell Fire! Coincidently, I also fancy that Hellfires mounted on AH-64D 🙂
januaryman
"Flim? You want flim?"
I had such success with rating it at 200, that I now rate BW400CN at 200 as well and get a similar improvement. Since I do shoot Fuji's color film, Superia 200, I never have to bother too much switching mind/eye gears when shooting Sunny 16. (But I often wonder if it's BW in that Canon P, or did I load color?)
BTW, the switch to Superia was a cost decision. I can now either use the color, or play with it in Elements to convert it to my more usual B&W. It is nice to have that option.
BTW, the switch to Superia was a cost decision. I can now either use the color, or play with it in Elements to convert it to my more usual B&W. It is nice to have that option.
Igor.Burshteyn
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I rate XP2 @320 when using camera with auto exposure, just to be on the safe side. Though I exposed XP2 a few times @800ei and had quite usable results (shadows did suffer a bit). In manual exposure mode (on metered camera) I rate XP2 @400 and adjust exposure compensation depending on subject/light.
btgc
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I voted for 200, but my stock is well expired; fresh stuff I'd try at 320.
Box speed is for those good at metering - I'm safer with a stop over. And XP-2 gets nicer with little overexposure.
Box speed is for those good at metering - I'm safer with a stop over. And XP-2 gets nicer with little overexposure.
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