Filmwasters
Which Board? => Main Forum => Topic started by: choppert on October 31, 2008, 01:01:28 PM
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From the cheapskates thread...
For experiments & where perfect colour balance is not important, and you're scanning use colour film and DIY develop.
What about using cheap colour film and developing it in B&W developer?
Looking at the web it sounds like it's quite do-able. Has anyone any views/experience of this?
Andrea - did I see a photo of yours on Flickr (of some steps) taken on colour and processed as B&W?
Chops
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Yep, it's doable, you get very dark, dense negs. They scan in OK though. When I did mine, I treated the film as if it was an "average" B&W film of the same speed, e.g. developed at 20C and for ISO100 used the time quoted for films like FP4 etc.
When scanned you get some odd colours !
Here's a couple I did a couple of years ago:
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/31/58784655_9f3828bed2.jpg)
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/31/64024261_73227c7b1c.jpg)
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This is Agfa Vista 200 developed in Ilford LC29 diltued 1:29 for 5 and a half minutes. Agitation was for first 30 secs then 5 secs every 30 seconds.
[Sorry, image deleted during forum software upgrade. Please re-upload if so inclined.]
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I accidently deved a c41 film as ERA 100 B&W, looked lovely, dense but very scannable :) might try it on purpose soon
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Yes, quite right I have done it a few times. You can scan them but too dense to print properly tho.
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I did it once this year and want to try it again. After scanning in I really had to whack up the levels in Photoshop, which I normally avoid doing as much as possible.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3238/2523882668_31b6fb9277.jpg)
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when people are doing this are they scanning as colour or as bw? the roll i did i scanned as colour, and most of the shots i didn't care for(the colour) but there were a few that had really nice colour. i seem to recall reading on flickr somewhere where someone added some sort of diy bleach step to make the film more normal. but i can't seem to find any reference to that now.
william
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it looks like there's a group on flickr devoted to this issue:
http://flickr.com/groups/c41inbw/
william