Digital BW, The Print

My mistake, it's http://daniel.staver.no/img/xp2test.jpg

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Daniel Staver
http://daniel.staver.no 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alessandro Pardi [mailto:alessandro.pardi@...] 
> Sent: 21. mai 2003 12:45
> To: 'DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com'
> Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Portra B&W
> 
> 
> Daniel, I'm very interested in the XP2, but the 
> <http://daniel.staver.no/xp2test.jpg> 
> http://daniel.staver.no/xp2test.jpg
> link isn't working...
>  
> thanks,
> Alessandro
>  
>  
> 
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Staver [mailto:daniel@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 21:58
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Portra B&W
> 
> 
> 
> > First, I shoot XP2 at 320 rather than 400.  Is that common practice,
> > or do people shoot Portra at its nominal speed of 400?
> 
> I regurlarly shoot XP2 at anything from 80 to 1600 on the 
> same roll of film without any problems. It's rated by Ilford 
> for as low as 50, but I found that it was easy to get blown 
> out highlights when I went that low, so I use 80 instead. 
> 1600 is very grainy, but sometimes it's better to get a 
> grainy shot than nothing at all.
> 
> I tested XP2 with different ISO settings here: 
> http://daniel.staver.no/xp2test.jpg 
> <http://daniel.staver.no/xp2test.jpg>
> (401kb)
> 
> > Second, and
> > more subjectively, XP2 has a "creamy" or flowing feeling to it that 
> > seems to be missing from Portra.  Has anyone else noticed that?  
> > Last, based on two rolls -- not a large sample -- it seems 
> that while 
> > Portra scans more easily than XP2 the prints I get back from the 
> > processor, which I use only as contacts anyway, are more contrasty 
> > and have a more limited tonal range than XP2.  
> 
> I hardly ever lose detail in my XP2 shots, no matter what I 
> do. The scans I get are really flat with low contrast, but 
> usually looks good once I do some adjustments in photoshop.
> 
> --
> Daniel Staver
> http://daniel.staver.no <http://daniel.staver.no>  
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