Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Let me see if I like the BW look in my photos before I jump in to developing.....but, you may be right. After a while I may get into it. At 10:13 AM 3/18/98 +0100, you wrote: > >Francesco, > >there are two B&W films in C41 technology. >The XP2 is from Ilford, >the T400CN is from Ilford. > >However, you seem to be a bit afraid to do the developing yourself. > >But I can tell you: It is no problem. I had the sameanxieties when I started >doing my own B&W and brought the films to a shop. Results where >disappointing. It is really difficult to it that bad yourself. You almost >always will do better. I never, really never spoiled a film completely. > >Sometimes it will be slightly softer, somtimes harder, but it is never so bad >that you cannot compensate during enlarging. > >When I started I kept developing times to the millisecond and temperature to >the millidegree. >Meanwhile I still try to keep the temparature exact but I allow myself to >extend the time sometimes up to 20% if I have the feeling that the pictures >might benefit from it. I never had severe problems. > >So this is my 5 Cents encouragement. > >Go ahead you won't regret it! > >christoph > Francesco Sanfilippo, Five Senses Productions webmaster@5senses.com http://www.5senses.com/