Digital BW, The Print

rc,

As you can see there are many favorites and it really is the film/developer
combination that counts. For myself it is FP4+ with some Tmax 400 when I
need speed or want to do contracted development. I develop either in Gordon
Hutchings PMK pyro developer or my own pyro formula in a Jobo drum
processor.

In general, in developing film with scanning in mind, I would suggest you
decrease your film speed a bit, say 1/3 stop and reduce your developing
time. A classic N-1 development. The reason is that scanners do an amazing
job at pulling shadow detail from conventional B&W negatives but are rather
bad at blasting through dense highlight areas.

Martin Wesley

http://www.borderless-photos.de/guests.html



----- Original Message -----
From: "richard cohen" <rsc236@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 1:44 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] your favorite film


>
> i'm new to this group - and my bet is that you all have gone through this
already umpteen times.  but i'm curious, and i'd like to do an informal
survey -
>
> (a) what b/w film are you using these days?
>
> and (b) if you have a little more time to answer - any other
experience/advice you can lend about types of b/w film and a dry darkroom
would be helpful.  particularly the "heavies" TMX, TMY, CN400, XP2, HP5,
delta.  and also, i've heard rave reviews about the agfa multispeed b/w
slide film.
>
> thanks to all for your help.  rc
>
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