I've always been a little dissatisfied with the lack of sharpness that
comes with the extra-fine grain of the C-41 process B&W films, however,
this softness is often suitable/desireable for glamourish portraits.
You can often get a lot of enlargement out of those negs without the
image looking grainy. Also, they have tons of exposure latitude...I had
a distraught customer who wanted to pull a bunch of rolls of T400CN he
had accidentally shot at ISO 50. I convinced him to process one roll
normally just to see how thick it would be and how tough to print it
would come out...and the result was great. Not bulletproof at all, or
even close, in fact, the negs were very normal looking.
Actually, he liked the results so much that he shoots it at 50 or 100
all the time now. I've got to convince him to shoot rolls at 400 and 50
of the same scene so we can compare prints. :)
-Aaron
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