About two and a half years ago, there was a dramatic though unannounced change in Ilford HP5 Plus film. The new material had much lower filmbase+fog levels and a longer straight line, making it better suited to production of negatives for Pt/Pd and other long scale printing processes. In fact it became, IMO, a superb film for platinum.
Recently of course Ilford has had troubles and reorganization. HP5 Plus sheet film disappeared from dealers for a while but now is back again. I just received an order of several boxes of 8x10, and find that the packaging has changed (different label). A changed package always means having to test to see if the stuff inside has changed as well, but I thought I'd check here whether anyone has shot and developed the "new" film, and of course whether they've seen any changes in the film's characteristics. Any input on this?
---Carl
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