XP-2 accidentally developed like regular B&W

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While I usually develop my own B&W, I send out XP-2 for commercial C-41 processing which I feel can be done better than I can. What happens if it is accidentally put through their regular B&W dip&dunk D-76 line?

-- Bill Mitchell (bmitch@home.com), November 10, 2000

Answers

Friends regularly develop XP2 in Acutol - I'm afraid I can't remember the times - and they are happy with the results. D-76 or ID-11 results are unknown to me for XP2.

-- Anthony Brookes (gdz00@lineone.net), November 11, 2000.

Anthony,

This is great that XP2 can be developed in a B&W developer. I love Kodak's T400CN but I don't like to go to the lab just to have it developed. I also not like the idea of developing C-41 myself.

So I just want to confirm that XP2 and T400CN can be developed in conventional B&H developers.

Where can I find more info on this?

Thanks!

-- Sol Campbell (solcam31@hotmail.com), November 12, 2000.


Realize that if you develop C-41 B&W film in conventional B&W developer, you will end up with a pretty much conventional B&W neg, with the mask. You will have silver grains in the emulsion rather than dye clouds.

ANd you would be in to serious experimentation at to times.

-- Terry Carraway (TCarraway@compuserve.com), November 12, 2000.


I had several students develop XP-2 in HC 110 "B" by accident. they could be printed although they had a magenta cast, in fact as i remember we did not use any filters when printing.

-- Ann Clancy (aclancy@mediaone.com), November 15, 2000.

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