Digital BW, The Print

A few thoughts:

Jobo is introducing a new processor at Photokina.

I've used quite a bit of XP-2 Super in 120 for medium format work, mostly
travel photography.  It printed very well in a traditional darkroom, and it
scans nicely. It's very different from Kodak's chromogenic films. It's a
good choice, especially when you'll encounter varying subject brightness
ranges that you want to accommodate on the same roll.  Shot at EI 200, it
has very fine grain, finer, ime than TMX in xtol when developed to the same
CI.  If you print large enough to see the grain, though, it will look
different than traditional BW films.  I don't do that.

It does pay to develop your own BW,  as many have said. It's not that hard,
and finding a good lab these days is challenging.

If you do shoot scenes of varying contrast on a single roll, or scenes with
a large subject brightness range, divided Pyrocat HD works well.
http://www.pyrocat-hd.com/  I'm not much of a fan of T-max developer.  It's
a high sulfite developer which produces fairly mushy grain.  (T-max RS is
not the same at all.)  D76 1 + 1 is a very reliable and high quality
developer.


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