Trying out Ilford's black and white film XP2 as my default go to film for B&W work!
XP2 is a film that uses "colour chemistry" for development. It allows for quick development and scanning and like many colour negative films is very forgiving so long as you err towards overexposing. The scans seem to need a bit of extra contrast and I get a fine grained image with deep blacks.
One interesting twist is you can change the ISO setting between 100 to 400 across a roll to control contrast as light levels change during the day and when moving between inside and outside.
The next step is to explore push processing of XP2 for low light indoor photos when the film will be used at ISO 800. If that doesn't work out I'll rely on Ilford's HP5 pushed one stop.
For even faster speeds for indoor and night time shooting I'll trying Ilfords Delta 3200 at a range of speeds and processing With winter approaching it seems I'll have plenty of low-light situations to try out!
