[Leica] Film Developing

[john at mcmaster.co.nz (John McMaster)]

I do not know about modern emulsions, in the 1980/90s C41 film was 
physically thicker (particularly sheet film) and hence not as sharp as E6 
film

john
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From:  Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com>

For colors, I have switched from 100% E-6 to 80% color negs / 20% E-6.
Occasionally it is still a struggle to get the right color balance, but
that's getting rarer and rarer. The dynamic range of the C41 is phenomenal,
I suspect close to the B&W films.

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:

> From what I see on Amazon, it is dated 6/14 and refrigerated.
>
>
>
> from my iPad
>
> Sonny Carter
>
> > On Feb 25, 2015, at 9:50 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
> > wrote:
> >
> > They have left over's.  Hopeful refrigerated by the attitude over there
> on
> > film is negative.  Its very begrudging. I love the place otherwise.
> Unless
> > someone is making bootleg rolls in the basement.
> >
> >
> >> On 2/25/15 10:36 PM, "Sonny Carter" <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> That may be, but B&H lists it in stock.
> >>
> >> from my iPad
> >>
> >> Sonny Carter
> >>
> >>> On Feb 25, 2015, at 9:31 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_discontinued_photographic_films
> >>> List of discontinued photographic films
> >>>
> >>> This the first I'd heard of no more plus x. my basic black and white
> medium
> >>> format studio film. In 220 or 70mm. Or 120.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 5 Kodak Films
> >>> 5.1 Kodak Verichrome Safety Film
> >>> 5.2 Kodak Verichrome Pan
> >>> 5.3 Kodak Super-XX
> >>> 5.4 Kodak Technical Pan
> >>>
> >>> 5.5 Kodak Professional BW400CN
> >>>
> >>> 5.6 Kodak Professional TRI-X 320
> >>> 5.7 Kodachrome
> >>> 5.8 Ektachrome E200
> >>> 5.9 Plus X 125
> >>> 5.10 Panatomic X
> >>> 5.11 ELITE Chrome Extra Color 100
> >>> 5.12 ELITE Chrome 100
> >>> 5.13 E100G
> >>> 5.14 E100VS
> >>> 5.15 E100GX
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On 2/25/15 10:03 PM, "Sonny Carter" <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Kodak BW CN is still available.  You can buy it from B&H, or Amazon.
> >>>>
> >>>> from my iPad
> >>>>
> >>>> Sonny Carter
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Feb 25, 2015, at 7:32 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Kodak stopped making their chromogenic black and white film (what
> this is
> >>>>> called) a few years ago but Ilford still makes XP2 which I've used
> this
> >>>>> decade to shoot film. It's embarrassingly good.  Its made of  dye
> instead
> >>>>> of
> >>>>> silver but how would you know? You can be all into darkroom
> chemistry and
> >>>>> developing and be lucky to approach it with regular black and white
> films
> >>>>> rated at 400. It seems to have the grain and sharpness of 100 films.
> >>>>> As far as archivalness goes regular black and white film seems to
> last
> >>>>> forever with a bit of care and luck but color neg always had a bad
> rep.
> >>>>> The reason was when you brought it back into the darkroom again to
> make
> >>>>> another print from a neg you'd printed before you count often not
> match the
> >>>>> preceding print. The various color layers faded not at the same rate
> so
> >>>>> you'd get color crossover. And there was no way to make a real good
> print.
> >>>>> This did not take years to take place but months and even weeks and
> some
> >>>>> color custom printers have told me days but I didn't see it with my
> own
> >>>>> eyes.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> XP2 only has one layer so if it fades a few percentage points you
> can just
> >>>>> add some contrast and probably match a print you'd made with it was
> fresh.
> >>>>> All my Xp2 I've shot for decades still looks good and I'd expect
> would
> >>>>> print
> >>>>> perfectly. Certainly scan perfectly.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On 2/25/15 8:11 PM, "Ken Carney" <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I can second that.  Ilford and Kodak make b&w films for C41
> processing
> >>>>>> (WalMart, Walgreen etc.), and in my experience they scan better than
> >>>>>> conventional negatives.  A downside is that they are shorter-lived,
> but
> >>>>>> in theory at least they are forever once scanned.  Or, absent
> scanning,
> >>>>>> as a long-time client of mine once said, at my age I don't buy green
> >>>>>> bananas.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Ken
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On 2/25/2015 5:08 PM, Sonny Carter wrote:
> >>>>>>> Have you checked Walgreen's?  Most of them still run C41, and you
> show
> >>>>>>> three
> >>>>>>> stores in town.  Check the one on Houston hwy, since it is close
> to UH.
> >>>>>>> I
> >>>>>>> don't love their scans (at least at mine) but they do a good job of
> >>>>>>> processing, and I do lots of small prints up to 8x10 there.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> from my iPad
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Sonny Carter
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On Feb 25, 2015, at 11:32 AM, Bill Clough <
> billclough042541 at gmail.com>
> >>>>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> USA
> >>>>>>>> TEXAS
> >>>>>>>> VICTORIA
> >>>>>>>> 25 February 2015
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Hi there--
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Never occurred to me--until now--to look through the Leica M's
> >>>>>>>> viewfinder after cataract surgery. To my surprise, I now can
> frame and
> >>>>>>>> focus again.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> I have source for film but even the local drug stores no longer
> are
> >>>>>>>> processing film.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> I still have the kinder man tanks but would like to avoid all
> that.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> I'm open to any suggestions about where 35mm film still is
> processed
> >>>>>>>> professionally.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Reply here are offline--
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Thanks--
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> --Bill
> >>>>>>>>