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     Alex Tinkerer Username: Alex Post Number: 52 Registered: 07-2006 Rating: N/A |
I like XP2, and have done since it was XP1. The tonal range of HP5 with the sharpness of FP4. My favourite portraits of my daughter when she was four years old were taken on XP1. The downside is that its archival properties are poor. These favourite portraits only exist in print form, the negatives have deteriorated to the point of unusability. I like the punchiness of Superia, which is great for sports and touring and that sort of stuff, and the more muted colours of Reala for portraits. I'm still a B&W man. My wife cannot understand it. Or she didn't until I took a picture of our daughter with her own hours-old daughter, sepia toned it, put a vignette round it, and printed it. It's now a family favourite portrait, and not a colour molecule in sight. Alex |