Ilford Xp-2

Steve Avery (stevea@sedal.usyd.edu.AU)
Fri, 03 May 1996 11:55:03 +1000

Hi all,
With the recent talk of producing large positives and all, I thought a
recent article in a NZ mag would be of interest. It talks about cross
processing Ilford XP-2 in E6 chemistry to produce B&W positives
(transparencies).
Apparently Ilford has literature on this technique. They recommend
exposing XP-2 at 80 asa. The slides in the mag look okay, a bit
greenish, but that is hardly a problem under UV. The author recommends
bracketing +/- 2 stops (but then, this is an amateur mag, and with a bit
of testing this could be changed).
For those in oz, nz, and se asia, the mag is "Photography
International". It's only a page and a half of text, so don't go
overboard if you have to special order it - the Ilford data would
probably be more enlightening.

cheers
-steve

p.s. hope no-one brought this up already!
p.p.s. the justification for the article - Scala isn't going to be
available in NZ, and the T-max and Tetenal transparency kits are too
much bother :-)