Hi there has anybody tried developing a typical 35mm color neg film in d76 or some other BW developer? Thanks

-- shreepad (middlegray@hotmail.com), July 06, 2000

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I haven't tried personally, but plenty of info I've read indicates that you end up with a really thin, unusable negative.

-- shawn (shawngibson_prophoto@yahoo.com), July 06, 2000.

Is this a real question?????

-- Michael D Fraser (mdfraser@earthlink.net), July 06, 2000.

Just for something to do I exposed and developed some old ISO 100 color print film as b&w film. I guess I expected to get some garish colors. What I ended up with was a fuzzy, low contrast b&w negative. Some of the characteristics were no doubt due to the age of the film. I haven't found a practical artistic application yet. Hmmm, Lomo-film?

-- Duane K (dkucheran@creo.com), July 06, 2000.

You will get a black and white negative. Color film also uses silver, but the silver is used to create the dye clouds (with the right chemistry), so if you develop in B&W developer, you get the silver grains, but no dye clouds.

WIth slide film, the first developer IS B&W developer.

-- Terry Carraway (TCarraway@compuserve.com), July 07, 2000.