Digital BW, The Print

Before you throw that baby out with the bath water, do yourself a favor and
try scanning it again, What are your methods now? With XP2 I found I needed
to pay attention to noise in the scan an different channel will produce
radically different results. The magenta mask with that film can get quite
high, so you may not be able to see some things unless you carefully inspect
negs. You may want to try a different processor as well. Then again it could
be toast. When did it expire? 

 

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From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Peter De
Smidt
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 9:31 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Film deterioration

 

> Stephen Kobrin <kobrins@wharton. <mailto:kobrins%40wharton.upenn.edu>
upenn.edu 
> <mailto:kobrins%40wharton.upenn.edu>> wrote:
> I have stored a supply of XP2 well past it's due date in my freezer.
> Are there any obvious signs of deterioration negatives from outdated
> film? The last two rolls show some "mottling" in the shadows. It is
> not posterization, but rather a coarseness and some lack of detail.
> Midtones and highlights seem fine. Is it time to toss the film? I am
> relatively sure the problem is not a function of scanning or
> processing in PS.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Steve

Old film can show loss of sensitivity and contrast, increased fog and 
graininess, and other ills. This is especially true of color films, of 
which XP-2 is a subset. I expect that you'd want to get different film.

-Peter

 



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