Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-mrvax!ddb From: ddb@mrvax.DEC (DAVID DYER-BENNET MRO1-2/L14 DTN 231-4076) Newsgroups: net.rec.photo Subject: Ilford XP1 Message-ID: <3406@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Aug-84 13:10:15 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3406 Posted: Mon Aug 20 13:10:15 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Aug-84 03:37:09 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 26 I'm glad Herb Kanner has had good luck with XP1. I know one other person who thinks it's good stuff, too, and I respect his technical expertise sufficiently that I'm sure it MUST be good stuff. But it doesn't work at all for me. I've shot it at 200, 400, and higher. Higher is a disaster, despite Ilford's claims. At 400, it's far inferior to Tri-X. At 200, it's far inferior to Plus-X. These results are based on my tests and a friend's independent tests, accounting for around 100 feet of 35mm XP1 and small quantities of 120 format. Incidentally, we also found that we got much better results in C41 chemistry than with Ilford's XP1 chemsitry. I would describe the image as purplish, which sometimes has interesting effects on variable-contrast papers.... And finally, since the image is a dye image, it's not a very permanent medium. If you are doing art photos, and are planning to destroy the negative after some number of prints to guarantee a limitation to a print run, this may be ok. Personally, however, I want my negatives to stick around a few hundred years. -- David Dyer-Bennet -- {decvax|purdue|ihnp4}!decwrl!rhea!mrvax!ddb