We present an imaging study of the Cl elimination channel in the 193 nm photodissociation of 2-chlorobutane. We compare the results obtained using resonant 2+1 photoionization of the Cl(P-2(3/2)) and Cl*(P-2(1/2)) products with those obtained using single photon ionization of the 2-butyl radical cofragment, and find reasonable agreement between the two techniques. The product translational energy distribution is sharply peaked at similar to50% of the available energy, while the branching fraction to the spin-orbit excited Cl* is 0.50. We also present results for H elimination in the 157 nm photodissociation of 2-chlorobutane. The results are interpreted using a simple impulsive model of the dissociation dynamics. (C) 2002 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.