Response to Colour negs.

I know this answer is a bit late, but this could help. A lot of my portfolio is color neg printed on black and white paper. When I was shooting for newspapers, all of my film was color neg, but a lot of the time I wanted my stories in black and white for my book. I think it's just an old myth that it can't be done. Initially most of my printing done on Ilford RC paper, generally the Pearl surface. Using either the Ilford developer or Dektol. Since then I've printed plenty of times on other papers as well, including Ilford fiber matt, and the Zone VI glossy, both of which work fine. I don't know if it makes a difference, but my enlarger has a color head, and I dial in the filtration with the Magenta channel. I have found that color negs shot in daylight seem to print a lot better than film shot under artificial light. Exposures are definitely longer than with black and white negs.

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