Response to Need least grainy 400 ISO film

Ilford's XP2 and Kodak's T-MAX 400 CN are both c-41 films. The resulting image is not actually formed by silver but by dye. I've experienced the following problems with XP2 (haven't tried T-MAX 400 CN). I don't like them vey much beacouse you cannot control the deve.lopement process (and I don't trust those people form the minilab), it gets easlily scratched and I don't like the tones it produces. I don't think you'll want to go through c-41 just to process this films (people think twice before doing it for color, which is what it was intended for at first, so I wouldn't recomend that much trouble to do b&w). I'd stick to conventional T-MAX films --which BTW really DO have finer grain than conventional films like Plus-X and Tri-X. You might want to try a fine grain developer like micridol-x or perceptol, if you are not extremely concerned about sharpness.

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