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Here's how it goes:
- Kodak BW400CN, like its predecessor, T400CN, has an orange cast, similar to Kodak's (and Fuji's, among others') C41-process color-negative film. Any color-neg printing/scanning process takes that orange cast into account while working its magic in making lovely 4x6" prints. If i recall, there IS a "channel" program in most one-hour printing machines that can handle chromogenic films like T400CN and BW400CN, but not chromogenics such as Ilford XP2 Super, OR Kodak's short-lived chromo (I think it was called BW400) which do NOT have the orange mask, making them (somewhat) easier to work with in the wet darkroom.
Y'all caught?
Anyway...I alternate between XP2 and BW400CN (shot a bit of the former in PA this weekend for a rare, out-of-New-York experience), depending on availability and mood, more or less in that order. XP2 is better for wet-darkroom printing, while BW400CN really wants to be scanned. Of course, XP2 scans gorgeously. But XP2, at least here in Nueva York, runs at least a buck more per-roll than BW400CN. And, hell, I'm pumping more money into my state's economy by buying from Old Yeller.
What's a film shooter to do these days?!
- Barrett
- Kodak BW400CN, like its predecessor, T400CN, has an orange cast, similar to Kodak's (and Fuji's, among others') C41-process color-negative film. Any color-neg printing/scanning process takes that orange cast into account while working its magic in making lovely 4x6" prints. If i recall, there IS a "channel" program in most one-hour printing machines that can handle chromogenic films like T400CN and BW400CN, but not chromogenics such as Ilford XP2 Super, OR Kodak's short-lived chromo (I think it was called BW400) which do NOT have the orange mask, making them (somewhat) easier to work with in the wet darkroom.
Y'all caught?
Anyway...I alternate between XP2 and BW400CN (shot a bit of the former in PA this weekend for a rare, out-of-New-York experience), depending on availability and mood, more or less in that order. XP2 is better for wet-darkroom printing, while BW400CN really wants to be scanned. Of course, XP2 scans gorgeously. But XP2, at least here in Nueva York, runs at least a buck more per-roll than BW400CN. And, hell, I'm pumping more money into my state's economy by buying from Old Yeller.
What's a film shooter to do these days?!
- Barrett