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Some 2007 ILFORD XP2 400 with MAMIYA C330 F SEKORS
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2023 3:20 pm
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2023 3:20 pm
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Found some 2007 dated ILFORD XP2 400 in Fridge so used it up in my Gift Mamiya C330F Pro with the SEKOR lenses
The Park in Witham, Essex England with 80mm f2.8 SEKORS



My Wife's 'Animals' with 135mm f4.5 SEKORS



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Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2023 3:58 pm
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Like 1 Like 1 Amazing crisp details!


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Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2025 6:05 pm
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Just had a 35 mm roll of the current XP-2 Super developed and printed.
Film was not expired.

Very similar results to here- I was quite surprised by the tonal range.
Negs look like the old FP-4 negs, right down to the purple cast, and have excellent density for ISO 400.
I'll try and make some copy shots to display here once the prints are flattened. The coated digital paper the lab uses has a nasty curl to it- probably a bulk roll for all the X 5" printing they do.

This film is worth trying.

-D.S.


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Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2025 8:15 pm
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Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2025 8:15 pm
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I quite like XP2 and recently ran a couple of rolls through my Contax RX and Voigtländer Vitomatic IIa.

Contax


Voigtländer


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Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2025 7:07 am
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Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2025 7:07 am
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XP2 in 120 format is kind of a mystery because C41 roll film development was so much rarer to find?
The whole idea was to get an easy 135 black & wihte dev?


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Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2025 1:28 pm
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kansalliskala wrote:
XP2 in 120 format is kind of a mystery because C41 roll film development was so much rarer to find?
The whole idea was to get an easy 135 black & wihte dev?


At least in Switzerland, during the 1990s, C41 roll film development was no problem at all. Most serious wedding photographers would use C41 roll films (mainly 6x7, some even 6x9cm), and that in itself would guarantee that all local photographers would accept C41 roll films for development.

That said, the XP2 roll film never got traction. The whole idea behind C41 b/w films was variable speed (in the 50 to 1600 ISO range) on the same roll, something that to some extent was already known for C41 color films: Common 400 ISO color film gave pretty good results in the ISO 100-800 range at least. The professionals didn't use b/w for their 6x7 and 6x9 cameras, and the dedicated amateurs could not enlarge the resulting C41 b/w negatives at home ... so no real market for the C41 roll films!

S


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Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2025 8:44 pm
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I don't think the XP-2's exposure latitude approaches anything near what Kodak was trying to accomplish.
It does show signs of over-exposure (at least) with-in a stop and a half (which is still pretty good). Under exposure I'm not all that sure on- it's kind of hard to work with what isn't there in the image.
At any rate, I was far less impressed with the Kodak version than I am with the XP-2 Super.

120 C-41 film abounded in the wedding industry locally.
Not many opted for the added cost of square prints, and there were very few complaints about "common sense" crops that were the commercial labs' norm at the time. Kodak Gold 100 was just coming on the scene in 120 when I put the cameras down and got a "real" job.

-D.S.


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Doc Sharptail wrote:
I don't think the XP-2's exposure latitude approaches anything near what Kodak was trying to accomplish.


Ilford claims ISO 50 to ISO 800:
https://www.ilfordphoto.com/xp2-super-35mm

I have used the XP-2 only once or twice, so no real experience here ...

S


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stevemark wrote:
Doc Sharptail wrote:
I don't think the XP-2's exposure latitude approaches anything near what Kodak was trying to accomplish.


Ilford claims ISO 50 to ISO 800:
https://www.ilfordphoto.com/xp2-super-35mm

I have used the XP-2 only once or twice, so no real experience here ...

S


Thanks for that link. There was no data sheet supplied with the 35mm version. The maker's commentary comes quite close to what I found with the film.

-D.S.
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