Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nah, the Great Yellow Father is so concerned with our welfare and the longevity of their new C41 monochrome film that they have withheld the release of T400CN until they have had the chance to age the negatives in real time. You see they developed it back in 1981 shortly after XP1 was introduced, and have kept it under wraps ever since. Why else would they have waited 16+ years to answer Ilford's product? <g> Adam On 12 Aug 97, ted grant <75501.3002@CompuServe.COM> wrote: > >Gerard Captijn wrote: > ><<< Do you have any information about the stability of the T400CN >negatives over time? How will these negatives be say 10 or 20 years from >now?>>>>> >. > >Gerard, > >I heard that Kodak has done something with the emulsion that Ilford didn't in >making the T400CN very stable both in before and after exposure. No idea what it >is, but they said it was as good as regular B&W film. > >Apparantly the stability factor was a major complaint of the XP1 & 2 > >ted >