Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/13

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Subject: [Leica] RE: Ilford XP2
From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 16:59:40 -0800
References: <F142mQwKLAffPc9VjeR000065b0@hotmail.com>

At 04:17 PM 2/13/2002 -0600, Jeffery Smith wrote:
>I'm not sure that a lab would do that for you. About 25 years ago, one could
>process color print film in E-6 (after using a weird filter) and get white
>printing on a blue background (this was pre-PowerPoint technology).
>Unfortunately, developing print film in E-6 loused up the chemicals for
>developing slides. Thus, you had to use home-brew chemicals to do it.
>
>Jeffery Smith
>New Orleans, LA


Most PRO labs will do this. It's called cross processing. A recognized way 
of processing film for special effects. Color neg in E6, E6 film in C41. No 
big deal, but sometimes the results are way way out there.

I was in Calypso imaging one day last year when a gentleman came in to pick 
up some film he had left for processing. He had just shot a wedding. When 
he looked at the film he let out a yelp! He had shot the wedding on E6 
Ektachrome and submitted it for processing on a cross processing request. 
Needless to say, his customer was probably not happy with the resultant 
negatives. They were certainly printable but the colors were very bizarre.

Jim

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