Re: filmscanners: orange mask

[Michael Wilkinson]

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From: "Roman Kielich®" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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: I know that. Ilford has changed the XP emulsion and tuned it to C41
for
: commercial reasons.
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The reason appears to be that they were not selling enough XP dev to
make it worth making it.
XP1 was also being sold as a film which could  be developed in C41 dev
as an alternative.
As a commercial user of both C41 and Xp dev my money was on Xp every
time.
the Mini labs and the Pro labs however could not have their minds
changed and the additional one and three quarter minutes dev time was
viewed as a retrograde step.
bottom line is that profit beat quality.