Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]However the flexiblity and > convenience of contact prints and your own printing for color > neg. is readily > available within the Beseler RA-4AT chemistry and Kodak, Fuji, or > Ilford RA-4 > printing papers. The RA4-AT chemistry allows ambient temperature (not > elevated!) and tray processing that is totally intuitive to what > you know from > black and white work. The print exposure times are similar, > process times are > similar and the ablity to pull your own color prints is > endlessly satisfying. > Even the costs are similar to black and white! Simply ask your > one hour place > to develop only. I usually supply a sleeve for my negs. The > only negative > is learning to work the exposure itself and the developer in > total darkness. > This takes about two prints to get over. I have some user notes on the > process if anyone is interested. > Will - I'm sure all this is absolutely right on...But I don't have a darkroom, and, at the moment, don't have the money to get into buying equipment and setting up...and, quite frankly, I have always prefered the look of B&W to color, and were it not for my wife's complaining about photos of the kids, etc., not being in color, I would virtually never use it...