Welcome to the newly subdivided Black and White Photography discussion forum dedicated to film and processing!

Feel free to post questions about black and white film and processing, or share your expertise with others. As with the original black and white forum, the goal here is to form a community of enthusiasts, hobbyists, professionals and others who share in their enjoyment of black and white photography.

Rules of the road: please be civil to each other. No flames. Avoid obscenity (whatever your definition of obscenity is). No commercial postings. That's it!

And if you think you're in the wrong forum, go back to the main forum page and try another discussion!

Have fun!

~mason

-- Mason Resnick (mresnick@idt.net), August 19, 1997

Answers

Greetings to my fellow silverslaves, After spending 20+ years solving photo problems primarily in the B+W field I find myself testing color negative experiments at Kodak Research Labs. In this era of corporate-downsizing my company, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to divest itself of most of the historical photography texts in the Research Library. I was able to salvage a few of them and now offer the contents to anyone who has a real interest in exploring ancient and obscure techniques. I'll soon have a scanner, so if you want the instructions for Wash Off Relief, Dufay Color, Dye Transfer,Carbro, albumen print, etc., drop me a line and I'll see what we can dig up. By the way, my real expertise is in copy and internegative production (and its ilk), and I am open to any questions. Keep the faith, digital is only another tool that can't match silver. Bruce McLaughlin

-- Bruce W. McLaughlin (Brucewmcl@aol.com), April 17, 1998.

I am way new to photography, and have a second hand Pentax K1000, plus 200ml lens. I have just started messing about with B&W and have used Kodaks' T400CN - I am told this is processed in the same way as colour film. Will this still give me good results - and does having this printed on 'real' B&W paper make any difference? I have used coloured filters will this too show results when processed by a third party? I live in a small rural town in North Queensland with little access to processing labs. .

-- Paula Turner (gunsmoke@bigpond.com), November 22, 1999.