In article <ie8jt3l6ks11gnf3e2soqdk9geomjm1jvi@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Roman J. Rohleder <rjrohleder@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>Re your original problem - you may develop the film in Rodinal or any
>other ordinary bw film. Just remember that the C41-Dev is a pretty
>strong formulation in combination with high temperature - to emulate
>that youŽll need a rather long dev time (or concentration of
>developer).
And you will still get results which are too low in contrast and have
too small a difference in density between the silver image and base tint
to be printable on conventional black-and-white materials.
>You pretty much canŽt overdevelop the C41 film.
>
>Last year I developed a few rolls of noname C41 films with Rodinal -
>the final aim was to redevelop those rolls in color by bleaching
>(rehalogenating) the films and developing, bleachfixing them in
>C41-chemistry afterwards. It worked fine - the color couplers are
>still functional after bw development and weeks of hanging in the
>cabinet....
Well. It "worked fine" because you wanted color results. If you'd
tried to print the black and white negatives which were your intermediate
step, I don't think you would be so happy about it.
--
Thor Lancelot Simon
tls@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"The inconsistency is startling, though admittedly, if consistency is to
be abandoned or transcended, there is no problem." - Noam Chomsky
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