Re: OT: Looking for advice on C 41 chemistry Black and White film

2001-02-07 Thread dave o'brien
A scroll of mail from Aaron Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 06 Feb 2001 07:51:50 -0500 Read it? y >Actually, he liked the results so much that he shoots it at 50 or 100 >all the time now. I've got to convince him to shoot rolls at 400 and 50 >of the same scene so we can compare prints. :) i

Re: OT: Looking for advice on C 41 chemistry Black and White film

2001-02-06 Thread Aaron Reynolds
I've always been a little dissatisfied with the lack of sharpness that comes with the extra-fine grain of the C-41 process B&W films, however, this softness is often suitable/desireable for glamourish portraits. You can often get a lot of enlargement out of those negs without the image looking g

OT: Looking for advice on C 41 chemistry Black and White film

2001-02-06 Thread Rory Flynn
There are 3 of these B&W/C41 films (Iford,Kodak, & Konica), any thoughts on the respective merits? - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .

Re: OT: Looking for advice on C 41 chemistry Black and White film

2001-02-05 Thread bc
Actually, with proper processing and decent printing, this film is quite stunning... 35mm looks really good as high as 11 x 14 (I've never printed it larger than that), and I can only guess at what kind of enlargements I can get out of it in 6x7 (my next experiment!!) I am quite pleased with the

Re: OT: Looking for advice on C 41 chemistry Black and White film

2001-02-05 Thread herbet brasileiro
If you want to do the processing yourself try Agfa C41 kit. I like it a lot. One kit costs less than $10 and has capacity for 8 rolls of 135mm/36. Herbet. --- Sid Barras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All: > > After further conversations with the "tech" people > at the pro lab (the > only one h

OT: Looking for advice on C 41 chemistry Black and White film

2001-02-05 Thread Sid Barras
Hi All: After further conversations with the "tech" people at the pro lab (the only one here in town), and because they can only do color chemistry enlargements, they are recommending I start using Kodak's 400cn film. They took me in the back and showed me some poster sized enlargements they are