Digital BW, The Print

I guess your problem negs are not underexdposed ....  As I recall, with XP1
or XP2, one would get the finest grain when shooting at low exposure indexes
-- 50 or 100; when the film is rated at 800 or 1600 (underexposed) the grain
will be quite pronounced.

jim




On 7/21/02 5:05 PM, "tjphotoct" <tjphoto@...> wrote:

> I am printing some of my older images that I shot on XP1 using
> Piezography inks and my Epson 3000. I am enlarging them to
> 16x20 and grain isn't an issue. The prints are looking great.
> They were all shot either 6x7 or 35mm.
> However, since I liked the ease of scanning and printing the XP1
> film I just shot a huge project with a Contax 6.45 using XP2 film
> which I haven't used before.
> I processed the film at a custom lab and I am trying to scan the
> film and make the same size prints.
> The XP2 negatives aren't the same color or as deep a color as
> the  XP1 negatives and they are very grainy and coarse and I
> mean very grainy and very course.
> When I look at the film under a loupe the grain is very obvious not
> at all the smooth look I am used to with XP1. In fact I think the
> grain is more pronounced with the XP2 film then with my Tri-X.
> Does anyone have a lot of experience with XP2 who could tell me
> what is going on?
> 
> Thank you.
> Regards,
> 
> T J
>