Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site tymix.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!oliveb!tymix!kanner From: kanner@tymix.UUCP (Herb Kanner) Newsgroups: net.rec.photo Subject: Re: XP1... (joe_film) Message-ID: <478@tymix.UUCP> Date: Sat, 10-Aug-85 01:03:44 EDT Article-I.D.: tymix.478 Posted: Sat Aug 10 01:03:44 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 15-Aug-85 21:07:30 EDT References: <475@tymix.UUCP> <9719@ucbvax.ARPA> Reply-To: kanner@tymix.UUCP (Herb Kanner) Distribution: net Organization: Tymnet Inc., Cupertino CA Lines: 27 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. ...!hplabs!oliveb!tymix!kanner