Most labs charge the same for developing wether it's 24 or 36 exp. I like the real b&w, but since I have no facilities to develop my own and I don't like mailing it out the c41 stuff works nicely for me. I'll probably start mailing most of my film soon though so I'll probably go back to using the real stuff.
~Nick On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Walter Gilbert <ldott...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 12/5/2010 10:40 AM, Nick David Wright wrote: >> >> Real black and white (i.e. - not the c41 b&w) has the potential to be >> sharper than color because of the way it's made. > > Thanks, David. I can see I'm going to need to do a little research to > determine what constitutes real b&w vs. C41. I know the local camera shop > does C41 developing at $1.99 a roll (I assume that's for 24 exposures). > >> For black and white I >> slightly prefer Ilford's XP2, but the local Walgreens carry three >> packs of Kodak BW400CN for $12 which I might start using since I won't >> have to pay shipping. > > I'll definitely have to check my local Walgreen's for film, as Walmart had > no b&w at all. I find that surprising. Go figure. > > -- Walt > > > -- > 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. > -- ~Nick David Wright http://www.nickdavidwright.net/ -- 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.
