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C41 Process Black and White… (6 posts)

  • Profile picture of gs.davies gs.davies said 2 years, 6 months ago:

    I took a roll of Ilford XP2 Super into Morrisons at the weekend. Went to collect it an hour later and I just knew this exchange was going to happen..
    -’Ah, Mr. Davies, we don’t do Black and White film’
    -’Yes, I know, this is a colour process film so no problem..’
    -’No, we’re not allowed, it mucks our machine up. And we can’t print black and white either’
    -’Well, you did a black and white digital for me last week’
    -’Well, we sholudn’t have..’

    Anyway, I got more or less what I wanted, they’d processed the film, left the negs uncut and they gave me back the £6. I didn’t want prints anyway!

    It seems the knowledge is drying up quicker than readily available film!

    TIme to get that developing kit I think.

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  • Profile picture of Hans ter Horst Hans ter Horst said 2 years, 5 months ago:

    I bought a change bag, a Paterson series 4 tank with some Rodinal and HC-110 and am having a great time developing myself. All of a sudden I can play around with the Exposure Index much easier and without extra expense.

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  • Profile picture of Paul Harrison Paul Harrison said 2 years, 5 months ago:

    You can always send your film to Ilford by post. They do C41 black and white and will print it for you. I am going down the route of home development mainly, although I still have some C41 B+W film left.

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  • Profile picture of Peter Elgar Peter Elgar said 2 years, 5 months ago:

    warning about processing C41 B&W films : If you ‘Pre-soak’ the Fuji ( made by Ilford ) or the Ilford XP2 Super before putting in the developer it causes reticulation of the gelatine coat on the back of the film — found out when I did a ‘pre-soak’ and saw the reticulation — Ilford technical dept. told me not to pre-soak.

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  • Profile picture of Russ Butner Russ Butner said 2 years, 5 months ago:

    Fuji Neopan 400CN is by far, the best of the B/W C-41 emulsions. Love the stuff. However, I’ve gotten very good and consistent results with Ilfords XP-2 too. For general snapping, I rate them at 320. For portrait work, I rate it at 200. My local “pro” and one hour labs have no problem souping and scanning it.

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  • Profile picture of chris bushnall chris bushnall said 2 years, 4 months ago:

    Well I done some pricing, I use Ilford B&W film, and it costs £19.99 for 36 exposure film to be developed onto 10×8 proper darkroom paper (using lford services) BUT!! if I develop the film myself and send the negatives to be developed onto 10×8 paper it will cost me £2.19 a print times that by 36 prints equals not bloody likely, but they do say the more you get the cheaper it is, so I let Ilford do all the work for £19.99

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