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From: kanner@tymix.UUCP (Herb Kanner)
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Subject: Re: XP1... (joe_film)
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Date: Sat, 10-Aug-85 01:03:44 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 10 01:03:44 1985
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In article <9719@ucbvax.ARPA> jordan@ucbvax.UUCP (Jordan Hayes) writes:
>
>Poor Dick Delagi, can't use XP1 (a variable EI film...) at 200,
>because it looses contrast...  Get a grip. Use a real film,
>like tri-x, but expose it at 250 (where kodak actually hints at...).
>
>------------
>Jordan Hayes        jordan@UCB-VAX.BERKELEY.EDU
>UC Berkeley                       ucbvax!jordan
>+1 (415) 835-8767    37' 52.29" N 122' 15.41" W

I used tri-X developed in 1 to 1 diluted D76 exclusively for about five
years.  It is a wonderful film, no question.  After my first trials with
XP1 I decided it had sufficient flexibility and so much greater a tonal
range, also a grain size that competes with asa 25 films, that I have stuck
to it ever since I first tried it three years ago.  Incidentally, until
this year, I was shooting it at asa 200 in order to get slightly better
grain, but decided to go back to 400 for most work in order to get that
extra little bit of contrast.

Perhaps you should get some experience with the stuff before you go
shooting your mouth off with excruciatingly funny bits of sarcasm.

-- 
Herb Kanner
Tymnet, Inc.
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