c41 processing of B&W film

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Can anyone help. I have just returned to photography after a number of years. I have taken two rolls of film using Ilford XP2 which should go through the c41 process. Can anyone talk me htrough this process.

cheers

Colin

-- Colin McCondichie (colin@realise.com), September 27, 2001

Answers

Colin, C41 is the color film process. Any mini lab or pro lab can do this for you. If you want to do it yourself, kits are available. It is pretty much straight forward. 95-100 degrees F (there are kits that are variable temps but your times will be lenghtened)....

-- Scott Walton (scotlynn@shore.net), September 27, 2001.

On the other hand.... you can develop XP2 with B+W chemistry. At least I have and it works well. I rate XP2 at EI 200 and develop in Ilfosol S for 8.5 minutes. The negs have a very odd pink cast to them, and they appear NOT to be fully cleared by the hypo. But all that goes away when they are dry. Well, there is a slight pinkish cast, but this does not affect printing.

I got into this by getting some out of date XP2 on eBay for a great price, and then decided that I was too cheap to spring for lab processing. In truth there is no advantage to using XP2 over any of the B+W film on the market. The grain is really good and with some work you can control the shadow details just fine.

This is probably a pointless post on my part, but I thought it might be interesting to someone.

later,

chuck k

-- chuck k (kleesattel@msn.com), September 27, 2001.


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