[Leica] Film Developing

[Sonny Carter]

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
>>>> 
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