Ilford XP2 SUPER: The Last of the Chromogenic Black & White | ROLL REVIEW 

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I think the audience for xp2 is all the people who are outraged by the hefty price labs charge for processing in comparison to c41

Ilford claim that you can rate this film stock from 50 to 800 ISO without changing the developing process. So you can actually shoot different pictures in the same roll at different ISO settings. That's a very unique feature. I develop black and white film myself so i don't think that i will ever try this stock, but maybe if one time i have to send some color film to the lab i might buy one roll just to try it.

As someone who shoots Pan F often, I am surprised. I love it since the Florida sun can be quite strong and I love to shoot contrasty scenes.

I have been waiting this vid for so long. Thanks you Noah! ❤

As most people, I started with color film, and over time I decided to try B&W film. Since I didn't want to potentially waste money on new chemicals, I decided to try with XP2. Really, a fantastic film for B&W if you don't want to develop at home and you don't want to deal with sending film to a lab by mail. Regarding the disposable cameras, some people use them for events so attendees have fun. Back when only the HP5 version of the disposable camera was available, a woman purchased one for her wedding and dropped it at a local 1 hour lab to get the pictures. The lab people didn't know any better and they ran the HP5 roll from the camera on their mini lab... with predictable results.

I am actually using XP2 Super, but I am only testing it for now. Your videos have helped me a lot-and funny (GOOD WAY)! Very informative and detailed! I have been shooting for over 45 years and I have learned a lot from you even though I have a degree in photography and developed back in school that I forgot-lol!, CHEERS!

Love your videos, Everytime I go, I wonder about this film stock, there you are with a video about it! You are one of the few channels that presents a lot of data to people that are either new to film or getting back into it (me)!

Absolutely love shooting this film, it is so flexible and always looks great.

AR gettin them ad breaks now! Congrats man. Awesome to watch you grow!

Ilford is such a great company ! I love all their B&W films 🙃

Like the new intro. I love this film stock. Used it a ton.

As I don’t have a darkroom anymore I find XP2 a good film I can get processed easily and cheaply as it’s have the price of a standard B/W processing here in the uk 🇬🇧 I been happy with the results and now experimenting with filters

I just found a roll of this in my old stock, I'm shooting it now and intend to develope it myself.

My fav b&w film. Super flexible, looks great rated at 200, can develop with my color films because I shoot both often and can use digital ice. C41 just makes it so convenient.

I've purchased an expired roll on a frea market and will bath that one in caffenol. But I've shot this stock at 800 on a Christmas market and had it developed in a lab (C41) and really liked the results

It also pushes quite well. I've shot concerts with it pushed to 1600 = )

I remember liking the Kodak version of this, its grain seemed more comparable to that of a 100 speed color film and it could be shot anywhere from about 50 to 1600.

XP2 is, as of 2021 my favourite black and white stock. Not only as you say is it easy to develop at a lab, the infrared scanning option is great and it’s just a really flexible stock. You can and probably should shoot it at 200 usually but as indeed the data sheet says you can abuse it at 50 or 1600 and get good results, without pull/push processing! My only objection to it is they don’t make it in sheet film sizes, otherwise I’d use it pretty much exclusively for monochrome work.

It also has really strong mask which gives interesting results when x-proccesing in e6

My local camera store/lab processes XP2 in 4 days; BW film is sent to another location that takes 2 weeks. I get faster service sending my BW film to a lab that's 1055 miles away, which was why the first roll of film I shot in many years was XP2.

Hi Noah! I really like XP2 Super, it has always been fine for me. I really like the look and I have no problem taking it to my lab to have developed. I do all of my B&W developing and scanning here at home and your videos have helped me a lot, CHEERS!

Big thing for me recently was I needed to turn around a shoot pretty quickly and I really wanted some B&W shots so it worked for the turnaround time.

I took some of my best photos while I was in England on this stuff. It was nice because I didn't have to bother with the university photo lab. I could just drop it off at the local camera shop and pick it up the same afternoon.

Been playing with getting this film cross processed in E6. It is a very interesting and unique film.

That's it ? We know that this is a special film, but you didn't actually talked about XP2. To me it's a really interesting film, especially for landscape since it probably has the best handling of highlights for a b&w film.

This is my gateway stock to monochrome. I wish these were sold in packs.

another good educational show

I’ve shot XP2 once, and it’s a nice stock. I’ve also got an XP2 disposable waiting to be developed at some point…

When I got into film photography I had already been shooting on digital for a few years, so I wanted to shoot B&W at first. Not knowing anything about developing, I shot nothing but XP2 for the first six months!! It was ideal for me

I have shot XP2 only a couple of times, but I like the look that it gives.

I just did xp2 in id-11, I will scan it tomorrow 🙈

XP2 is perfect for those of us living in sunny (contrasty) places. Greetings from Perth 🇦🇺

While HP5 has been my preferred B&W stock for years I may have to try a roll or two of XP2!

I just found this channel and it’s already been so helpful!! Do you have a video on how to develop film at home ? I don’t know anything about photography but I found a Kodak 314 at my local thrift store and I don’t think I can get it developed at a photo counter since it uses 126 film. The camera already had film in it (probably way expired lol) and I want to use it on a trip after my friend graduates this June so the pics will be a special memory. But like I said I don’t think it will be easy to get them developed. Would it be easier to do the 35mm “hack” on this camera? Can you please point me towards any resources that might be helpful??

Still obsessed with the new intro. I might even buy some apparel...🤷🏾‍♂️😊

Only black and white I shoot since my local lab only develops c41 Still looks great thankfully

Because I don't develop myself, I only use XP2 if needing B&W. The London Drugs in my area still has in-house photolab, which still does same day action, but they rid themselves of their B&W process and now farm that out to Vancouver. Takes forever and the cost is terrible now, but not so much for C41

Different developers give you different grain. The C-41 process grain becomes a little chunkier and asymmetrical

My go to lab has to send out traditional b&w film for development and the turn around time is 10-14 days so XP2 is my choice of film by default

I'm so old that I can remember when XP1 came out. Agfa also put out a chromogenic at the same time. The grain is insanely fine for 400 ISO. Actually, it is not as sharp as conventional B&W films, but sharpness is mostly a side issue. We see grain or lack of far easier than sharpness. When processed in a conventional lab, the prints are usually tinted. A good operator will get B&W. Of course, other than specialized labs, where does one easily get C-41 processing anymore? Certainly not at Walgreens. It's easy to process at home with a C-41 kit. Then scan and print, your 21st century hybrid darkroom. As much as I have loved analog darkroom printing, it's also a slog to get great results. What would take forever or, often, can't even do in a chemical darkroom, a few minutes with the computer is astounding.

I remember a brief. Of time when Kodak put their c-41 black & white film in disposable cameras.

Congratulations on this new sponsor! The first, if I'm not mistaken?

Its by far my favourite black and white 400 ISO film. I dont know how to say It propperly, but it has the right amount of contrast and dynamic range, It isnt flat and grey and Its not literally black and white and super contrasty. For me its what i think of when i think of black and white. Really sounding like a Fanboy here, but i dont know i just feel very very confortable shooting It, like i know almost exactly how the scene is gonna look like and Its more coincidental than anything, i havent really used It THAT much

I like to shoot XP2 for its latitude, the highlights show plenty if detail

Honestly, I like using XP2 more than HP5: it seems to look a bit more contrasty indoors, which is the look I like a lot and possibility to shoot different ISO on the same film and still develop it as ISO 400 is a killer feature, imo. Fun fact: XP2 Super single use camera kicked off my current interest in film photography, so there's also a bit of personal connection to this stock for me :)

I love this films sharpness, but like developing myself so I stand develope xp2 in rodinal and have found it works great. Very sharp and when shot on 120 at iso 200, little to no grain.

Hi, I still new in film photography. I have a question, which aperture is nice to shoot on XP2?

if i want the finest grain and i were to rate it at 50 would i then have to push/pull as well?

i LOVE this film!

I think the tones are better with this film than many others. The same with the old edxpired roll of Kodak CN I shot.

Please do a roll review on 16mm motion picture film.

I shoot with Ilford XP2 along with the other b&w films. And as I process all the negatives myself, it is not that of a differences should it be developed with c-41 kit or different chemicals. Regardless of this "feature", XP2 is a great film. I use it when I need the image to be black&white, I need those 400 ISO and zi need resolution. Exactly that what I like the most in XP2 - image quality is really fine and at a box speed contrast is perfect (quite high). I wouldn't recomend this film for a portraiture in a high contrast scene, but rather than that you can successfully use it for everuthing.

I use XP2 because I wanted to develop my own film but only wanted to house one set of process chemicals so I chose C41 for the ease of a beginner in developing and later wanted to find a B&W film that could be developed with C41 and there was only one on the market. I feel that it has been a good film for me but I'm only a hobbyist.

Ehh you followed through, great video!

Have you ever tried reversing black and whhite film during development? I've got a medium format camera, and I want to make my own black and white slides, but I'm having a lot of trouble finding B&W slide film. I have heard that you can modify the development of BW negative film in such a way where it comes out positive. You mentioned using Pan F, and I read somewhere that Pan F Plus is ideal for this process.

There's exactly 1 film lab in my city and they charge an exorbitant amount to develop b&w, and because of the small amount of b&w film they take in, they hold on to your film for up to a week before processing it, it takes forever. However, XP2 being C-41, only takes them a day or two to process. That's why I like XP2! Yes it's pretty flat, but it's easy to add contrast in the darkroom or in post and the flexibility of being able to shoot ISO 50-800 without changing development is pretty huge.

I'm probably getting a tenner of these since they currently -cost as much- are cheaper as the remaining stock of Fuji C200 and Kodak CP200, and Kentmere 400 as my go to, given if XP2 doesn't go astronomically expensive as with its colored cousins

I just wish the lens-cap was lined up straight... :) ;)

Huge panf fan

I shot a roll of XP2 Super a few years ago when I didn't really know what I was doing. I must have underexposed a load of shots by around 3 stops and I actually really loved the results! Super grainy, low dynamic range with quite lifted blacks. I'd love to try it again now that I understand more

Hi fellow analog enthusiasts! I'm curious. How much does your local lab charge for processing color? B&W? Here in Switzerland, it's about 20$ for processing and scanning any film, color or B&W. Some labs charge a bit more for B&W, but not much, like 10% more. Print cost vary from place to place and depending on quality, but is between .30 and 1$ per 10x15cm print.

Nice! :)

Are there zero photography RU-vid videos being made in the lower 48? Because I swear to God all I'm getting are Canadian made videos. I've heard more "aboots" in the last month that I'm not so sure I don't actually live in Canada now.

Can you use ektachrome In your everyday point and shoot camera?

Ya, I don't know why you would process it in B&W chemistry. But! I have developed C41 colour in black and white chemistry a few times. More for proving it can be done. Also, it looks pretty rad. No, it does not come out in colour. Yes, it is a total pain in the arse to make b&w prints in a darkroom with it. But, it's doable-ish at max magenta/contrast.

I shoot it for the look of it, not to get it developed in a lab. I develop it together with my color negative film. I have tried b&w developing it, but find the results too flat, so i stick with C41.

I swear I just stumbled on some super weird Russian film stock that was b&w chromogenic, but for all i know its just a reroll of this stock. Side note: do Aerocolor!

This seems like it'd be perfect for someone that shoots both color and black and white and wants to save on chemicals

Forgetting about PanF is not OK.

i bought it because it said super and i wanted to be super. havent tried it out yet.

Actually, I rather enjoy XP2. Over half of my work is B&W, so XP2 is just another resource that I lean on, especially in high contrast situations. My local lab folks don’t even blink an eye when I hand it in for processing..

I just buy xp2 because it's cheaper compared to Trix and don't need to shoot an expensive film as a hobby

Why film stock? It's film.

What the negatives for this film look like? Are they purple or orange? Or just transparent? You normally show the negatives but you didn’t show them this time 🤕

Okay why are there automatically generated Turkish subtitles but no English ones? 😂

If you are going to shoot film, then do you own developing because there is so many different developers that can give you different results.

éé this is not really black and white , try fomapan or some normal black and white film