Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!ucbvax!jordan From: jordan@ucbvax.ARPA (Jordan Hayes) Newsgroups: net.rec.photo Subject: Re: XP1... (joe_film) Message-ID: <9941@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 14:23:48 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.9941 Posted: Fri Aug 16 14:23:48 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 21:47:36 EDT References: <478@tymix.UUCP> Reply-To: jordan@ucbvax.UUCP (Jordan Hayes) Distribution: net Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 33 In article <478@tymix.UUCP> kanner@tymix.UUCP (Herb Kanner) writes: Perhaps you should get some experience with the stuff before you go shooting your mouth off with excruciatingly funny bits of sarcasm. Sorry to hear that you thought it was sarcasm. I've shot thousands of rolls tri-x, and have grown used to the performance I get from it. I suppose that explains why I still use it. I also suppose that's why I don't use XP-1, which I tried in sample quantities before it came out. Exposed and developed properly, tri-x gives me better performance than XP-1 (or AGFA's vario-xl for that matter). My question is this: how much is "some experience" ?? Can you say "200 or so" ?? That is how many rolls I shot of XP-1 before I realized that what I had hoped for when I first read of it was all just a dream. The choosing of film, of course, comes down to a personal level, just as anything else does (like camera equiptment manufacturers). I buy Nikon equiptment because I can trust it. Note, by the way, that I don't think it's inherently *better*, only that I know when I have a strap break or get run into by a 300lb football player that my F2as will hold up. I know that when I have the need for a 600mm f/4 lens, it will be available. There's a lot to be said about trust when it comes to picking products. I know I can depend on tri-x. I had high hopes for XP-1 when I first saw it, and tried to give it a chance, but it let me down. ------------ Jordan Hayes jordan@UCB-VAX.BERKELEY.EDU UC Berkeley ucbvax!jordan +1 (415) 835-8767 37' 52.29" N 122' 15.41" W