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XP2 Super

Nominal ISO 400
B&W negative C-41 In production Chromogenic B&W

Development times

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Developer Dilution EI Temp Time Agitation Source
C-TEC C-41 Negative Kit working solution 400 30.0 °C 8:00 —
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C-TEC C-41 Negative Kit working solution 400 38.0 °C 3:15 —
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Cs41 Color Simplified Kit working solution 400 22.0 °C 50:00 —
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Cs41 Color Simplified Kit working solution 400 24.0 °C 35:00 —
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Cs41 Color Simplified Kit working solution 400 27.0 °C 21:00 —
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Cs41 Color Simplified Kit working solution 400 29.5 °C 13:00 —
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Cs41 Color Simplified Kit working solution 400 32.0 °C 8:30 —
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Cs41 Color Simplified Kit working solution 400 35.0 °C 5:45 —
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Cs41 Color Simplified Kit working solution 400 39.0 °C 3:30 —
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C-41 Home Processing Eco Kit working solution 400 39.0 °C 3:30 —
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C-41 Home Processing Eco Kit working solution 400 38.0 °C 3:00 —
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C-41 Colour Negative Developing Kit working solution 400 38.0 °C 3:15 —
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Development times by developer

4 developers

Ilford XP2 Super
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Specification

Base
Acetate
Emulsion
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Spectral sensitivity
Panchromatic — what this means

Sensitive to the whole visible spectrum, so colours turn into greys roughly the way the eye weighs them. This is what almost every general-purpose black and white film is. It has to be loaded and developed in complete darkness — no safelight is safe for it.

Grain (RMS)
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Resolving power line pairs / mm
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Maximum density
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Latitude over
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Latitude under
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First released
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A dash means the figure has not been read off a datasheet. Nothing here is estimated.

Long exposures

Reciprocity

MeteredExpose
1 s1 s
2 s2.5 s
5 s8.2 s
10 s20 s
30 s1 min 26 s
1 min 00 s3 min 33 s
2 min 00 s8 min 49 s
5 min 00 s29 min 18 s

Tc = Tm^P for metered times over 1 s; 1 s or less needs no correction (P = 1.31)

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