Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, 
"Anthony G. Atkielski" <anthony@a...> wrote:
> Paul Roark writes:
> 
> > Have you compared scans with the non-masked version,
> > Kodak's T400CN?
> 
> I don't remember.  I think I may have tried T400CN once.  I'm
> certain I've tried some other chromogenic films, but I don't 
> remember why Iended up with a preference for Portra 400BW.

Without straying too far afield (oh, who am I kidding?), I'd like to 
put in a good word for Ilford's XP2 Super chromogenic film, 
which I've beem using for three years with very good results. I 
prefer it somewhat to T400CN, but admittedly that was a scanner 
or two ago; having been using a Minolta 5400 for the past four 
months, I might take another look at Kodak, even though it looks 
like a new version of Portra 400BW is aboiut to replace both the 
old Portra and T400CN. (Then too, XP2 is the only one of these 
for which VueScan has a setting, and it works *quite* well).

- Barrett