This is what happens to a 'Chromogenic Type Film' which has been badly stored and reacted with 'Fumes' It comes out very 'Thin' and 'Greened' instead of looking a Brown Colour. I was given this Ilford XP2 400 Super by a Camera Club member but on ;processing this was the 'Densest' negative.
That's very interesting. I've never seen that effect before. If you wanted to print this digitally, you could just take the magenta layer from CMYK file or turn off the green layer on an RGB file, and you may have a denser stronger looking image. Then desaturate. Can If you wanted to print it in an enlarger using multigrade paper and a set of multigrade filters, the 4 1/2 or 5 filer might do the trick. Not only does it add contrast, but because it has an overall magenta cast, it will filter out some of that green, which also might make the imafe and stronger. (I worked my way through grad school in a custom photolab in NYC. I always groaned when customers brought in chromogenic film. That film is difficult to work with, even with the best of negatives. Of course, we got better results if we printed chromogenic negatives on color paper, RA4, but in the B&W darkroom, not my favorite.)
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