Digital BW, The Print

At 02:07 AM 5/13/2003, Loris Medici wrote:
>Interestingly, I don't remember any ILFORD B&W negative film profile
>(other than the chromogenic XP2) present in Vuescan... [Sarcasm mode on]
>Perhaps that's because ILFORD films like HP5+, FP4+, Delta 100, 400 and
>3200 are seldomly used films in the B&W realm [Sarcasm mode off]

Neither are Tri-X, Plus-X, High Speed Infrared. So it's not just Ilford 
that is discriminated against. I asked Ed about High Speed Infrared once 
and he said that the T-Max 100 profile would probably do fine. And indeed 
it did. It also seems to work well for Tri-X, etc. I've even used it for 
Polapan 55 P/N negatives with great results. This suggests to me that there 
is not as much variability between black and white films as there is 
between color films. I can imagine that, especially for color negative 
films, the film base could vary quite a bit between different films (orange 
mask, etc.)

Stan

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