frank theriault wrote:
--- 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>
He, he.
Yeah, I thought I might omit the obvious questions this time...
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.
You mean on the negative? Or might the print look purplish just because
of using colour paper for a B&W print. Or are you supposed to do just
that with these films?
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,
I've found the actual film at a reasonable price. One place I checked
the XP2 400 cost exactly the same as the Delta 400.
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?
B&w labs are a bit hard to come by, and the ones I've found charge rather much.
cheers,
frank
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