Since Ilford stopped making the chemistry for this film, I have had no luck finding a lab to process and make contacts. I stay away form the one hour labs. Does someone know who treats this film right? gil

-- gil garcia (gil-garcia@worldnet.att.net), October 10, 1999

Answers

I thought it is only a C41 chemical process . The problem is the papers the processors prints the negatives on.

-- Russ Brubaker (brbkr@macs.net), October 10, 1999.

I thought it is only a C41 chemical process . The problem is the ability of the processors to make sheet contacts.

-- Russ Brubaker (brbkr@macs.net), October 10, 1999.

Ilford XP-2 is, in fact, a C-41 process film. Any pro lab should have no problem with processing it. Fact is, the cheap shops should also have no problem. The film goes straight in with all the other color film, no muss no fuss.

Unlike Kodak T400CN, XP-2 produces a true black & white negative. The lamps in the color printers need to be adjusted before the film is printed. Otherwise you will wind up with a sepia or blue cast to your prints.

T400CN has a dye in it to produce a black & white print on color paper with no adjustments needed.

-- Brian C. Miller (brianm@ioconcepts.com), October 11, 1999.

Actually T400CN has an orange mask that makes it EASIER to print on color paper, but typically it suffers from color casts if printed on color paper.

Kodak Black and White Select+ has reformulated orange mask to better print using the Gold 100 channel on the printer. It still isn't perfect on color paper, unless the operator knows what they are doing.

Both of these and Ilford XP2 and XP2 Super are processed in the same chemistry as color print film. Same times, etc.

-- Terry Carraway (TCarraway@compuserve.com), October 12, 1999.

The 1-hour shops seem to do fine with it. The only problem is getting them to print it a bit darker than their machines seem to be zeroed for. Have found one or two that will work with me. A pro lab should handle it with no problem.

-- Tony Brent (ajbrent@mich.com), October 18, 1999.