janet cull Posted September 15, 2003 Share Posted September 15, 2003 I have some old XP1 400 I need to process and I can't find it on Ilford's site. (I was hoping to process it tonight) Can anyone help? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janet cull Posted September 15, 2003 Author Share Posted September 15, 2003 Never mind. Doggone it! I just noticed it says, "process C41". If I'd noticed that before I would NOT have shot that film for this project. Oh well, it'll teach me to watch better. Thanks anyway! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nige_buddy Posted September 16, 2003 Share Posted September 16, 2003 not too mention it's probably a minimum of 15 years old... (last roll of XP1 I used would have been close to 20 years ago) unless you mean XP2! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janet cull Posted September 16, 2003 Author Share Posted September 16, 2003 Nope. It's XP1. I was given lots of old, but properly stored, films by a photographer-gone-digital and it's all just fine so far. I've never before refrigerated films but I'm sold on it now. Some of these films are dated 1991 and I've had no problems yet.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougmiles Posted September 16, 2003 Share Posted September 16, 2003 Hi Janet -- I've been gradually using up some XP1 in both 120 and 35mm that's been in the fridge for quite a while... Some of the 35 was loaded from bulk in 1984. I used to develop this stuff myself in Ilford's own XP1 processing kits. The basic time specified by Ilford is 5.5 min at 100 degF. It's notable that this is a good bit longer than the standard C41 time of 3.25 min at 100 degF. Consequently, when I recently shot some of this film and had the first rolls machine-processed by the local lab, I shouldn't have been surprised to see the negs come out rather thin and flat. BTW, my standard EI for XP1 has long been 250 rather than 400. So, for the next roll I requested "push process" by 1 stop as for EI=800 (fibbing a bit for the lab's benefit, I just wanted more contrast and highlight density). These came out a good bit snappier. Maybe a tad TOO snappy, but still fine. I suspect a half-stop push would be ideal, but I'm content with the 1 stop, and I don't have much of that film left now. I've reserved the last few rolls for low-contrast subjects, but I think XP1 in the standard C41 would still be good if one scanned the thin/flat negs and then tweaked the contrast in image editing software. I understand that XP2 was redesigned for machine processing, and comes out with normal contrast and density. Hope this works for you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruben_bittermann2 Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 <p>I have found an old bulk of xp2 among my stuff. I do remember very well that through a long time manual processing, some 12 or more minutes, the results were stunning, just stunning far beyond the c41 destination.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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