Photography on film - developing C-41 film in B&W chemistry.
Some long time ago week I combined two new me techniques in this batch – semi-stand and processing C-41 film in B&W chemistry. what prompted me to develop color negatives (it was Kodak Ektar 100) with black and white chemistry??? I have no idea, maybe a desire to experiment with film and Ektar was exposed more than a year ago and waited for attention in my fridge. until some time I used local lab service to develop color film (slides and negatives), but last time two of color 120 rolls exposed in Ethiopia were spoiled in this lab.
The developing process is very simple – actually the same as B&W negatives developing. during the way of my “home education,” I learned to be very accurate with temperature, measures, and attentiveness in agitation. more than this – I decided to make it semi-stand – one hour of developing that can help to achieve the better tonal range and confidence that this long process will be less aggressive to the foreign emulsion.
The result I got was dirty and grimy – i read about in forums when i did the home works about this not native process, but somewhere inside my was hope for a miracle… 🙂 and a miracle happened when i started the scanning process. you can see the results below – clean and crispy, sharp and toned well scans of 12 frames.
A few words about photography gear, soup, and times I used. Hasselblad 500cm with Planar 80mm f/2.8 attached. Kodak Ektar color negative 120 film. 2 minutes of soaking in a clean 20C water. 1+100 Rodinal (one shoot) developer – one hour with one turn in the middle. one-minute agitation in a clean 20C water and finally 8 min of fixing in Agfa Fix-AG 1+7. 2 minutes of the wetting agent at the end.
Hasselblad 500cm
Planar 80/2.8
Kodak Ektar 100
Rodinal 1:100 semi-stand developing process.
Partially taken from my blog post :
http://www.victorbezrukov.com/semi-stand-developing-c-41-film-in-bw-chemistry/
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