On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Mat Maessen <tomatoe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7/9/10, Paul Ewins <paulew...@optusnet.com.au> wrote: >> Christine, >> I used some of the C41 B&W film way back and found that when >> it was printed >> on regular colour paper the contrast was way too high. I could take the same >> neg and >> print it myself on B&W paper and it would be just fine. In the end I just >> regarded the prints >> from the processor as fist run proofs for weeding out the obvious mistakes. > > > ISTR Kodak produces (produced?) two different varieties of C41 B&W film. > > One variety was designed to be printed on standard B&W paper. So the > negatives had the correct tonal range for that. > > The other variety was designed to be printed using a standard color > printer. So the negatives had the correct (compressed) tonal range for > that. > > Maybe that accounts for the differences? > > -Mat >
Kodak produces on variety, BW400CN, which is designed to be printed on colour paper, they stopped making Portra BW (their other variety) a long time ago.. Ilford produces XP2 Plus which is designed to be printed on B&W paper. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
