black & white · Ilford · ISO 400
Ilford XP2
Black and white film developed in colour C-41 chemistry — unusually smooth and flat.
Original
Ilford XP2
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What this look does
Very smooth dye-cloud grain rather than silver grain, with low contrast and a long, forgiving tonal range. Often carries a faint warm or cool tint rather than pure neutral grey.
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About Ilford XP2
Because it goes through the same process as colour film, XP2 could be developed at any one-hour lab — the reason it survived while other chromogenic black and white films did not.
Included renderings
In Filmgrid each rendering carries its own name. The exposure and temperature labels describe how it differs from the base look.
| Filmgrid name | Rendering | LUT |
|---|---|---|
| Bare Silhouette | base | .cube |
How to use this LUT
The download is a standard .cube 3D LUT, so it loads in almost anything: Lightroom Classic (Profile → Browse), Photoshop (Color Lookup adjustment layer), Premiere Pro (Lumetri → Creative), DaVinci Resolve (LUTs panel), Final Cut Pro (Custom LUT effect), Affinity Photo, Capture One and OBS. See the step-by-step guide if you have not loaded one before.
If you only want the finished picture, skip the download: open the tool, drop a photo in and export at full resolution. Nothing leaves your device.
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Compared with
Two looks described in words is guesswork; two looks on the same photograph is not.
- Ilford XP2 vs Kodak BW400CN — The two chromogenic black and white films.
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