--- frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Toralf Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Another slightly OT question: > > > > Does anyone here have any experience with C41 > > process B&W film? > > > > Yes. > > HTH, > frank
Okay, I guess I wasn't the first one to try to be funny. <vbg> Seriously, yeah, I've tried it a couple of times. Tried some Ilford stuff. I was very disappointed that it had a purplish cast to it. I was pursuaded to try Kodak Portra b&w, as I was told that really good minilabs can "dial out" the purple and make it look more like "real" b&w. So, I took it to the shop in town whose minilab I like best, and told them to dial out the purple. The results weren't horrible, but for some reason it didn't look as good as "real" b&w. I'm sure that was just me being me, and that in a blind A/B test, I couldn't tell the difference, but I thought I could, anyway. Problem was, the film was expensive as all get-out, that minilab is much more expensive that the corner drug store, so the film/processing combo cost about the same as taking HP5+ or TriX to my favourite b&w lab and getting back 36 Quickprints. My b&w lab is closer to my house, too. Why bother? cheers, frank ===== "Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst" ******** "Of course it's all luck" -- Henri Cartier-Bresson ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
