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Reciprocity

Ilford XP2 Super long exposures

What a metered time becomes on XP2 Super, and the stops it adds — worked out from Ilford’s own data, never past it.

Your metered time

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

The maker’s reciprocity data ↗

At a glance

Metered Expose for Added
1 s 1 s —
2 s 2.5 s +0.3 stops
4 s 6.1 s +0.6 stops
8 s 15 s +0.9 stops
15 s 35 s +1.2 stops
30 s 1 min 26 s +1.5 stops
1 min 3 min 33 s +1.8 stops
2 min 8 min 49 s +2.1 stops
4 min 21 min 52 s +2.5 stops
8 min 54 min 14 s +2.8 stops
16 min 2 h 14 min +3.1 stops

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