One litre solution is said to be sufficient to develop 16-18 rolls of film but I normally do slightly fewer rolls than this. This is a box of 6 bottles which you mix together to make up three solutions – developer, blix and stabilizer. The chemicals I use for developing colour film is the 2.5 litre tetenal C41 kit. This is B&W film that you can develop in C41 chemicals. It also includes C41 black and white film, Ilford XP2 Super.
#C 41 black and white film pro#
The lower bag of the film in photo is exposed standard C41 colour film such Kodak Ektar 100, Kodak Portra 160 & 400, Kodak Pro Image 100 etc. If you want to get Vision3 film with the Remjet already removed just buy CineStill 50D or Cinestill 800T. (Vision3 film needs the remjet removing so it can’t be lab developed). I bulk load these 35mm films then cross process in the Tetenol C41 chemicals. This includes Vision3 50D, 200T and 500T films. The top bag of film contains exposed ECN-2 Kodak Vision3 motion picture film. My backlog of exposed colour filmĪbove is a photo of my film to be developed. I have developed a couple of rolls in the lab during that time, for clients, but haven’t done any at home. This probably explains why I have so many film cameras! I’m always testing/ experimenting in search of the ‘ultimate’ camera! Film developing – previouslyįrom the dates on my film developer bottles the last time I did some C41 film developing at home was last July. My head is always buzzing with new ideas so I often skip from one project to the next. I always struggle with not enough hours in a day to do everything I want to achieve. > Join me on YouTube! No colour film developing for 12 months!
#C 41 black and white film how to#
Get inspired to try it yourself! If you are looking for a film developing guide you might prefer my more detailed how to develop film at home post! If the black & white film is treated with the bleach-fix blix, all your images will be destroyed.Me doing some C41 film developing at home yesterday. The finished film should then be washed in running water to purge it of the processing chemicals. Next you fix the film using a typical black & white fix bath. You should follow the developing step by a stop-bath or water rinse. You would do better if you used a solution that is optimized to develop black & white film. The color film emerges, whereas the silver images are removed, and the resulting color images are a color negative.īottom line: You can use the C-41 developer to process black & white film. IF the C-41 solutions are of an abridged type, the bleach and the fix step are combined making a bleach-fix or blix. Next the C-41 process fixes the film using a typical fix bath. Its job is to convert the silver image back to a silver salt. The silver is opaque and thus veils the dyes. In the C-41 process, the film emerges from the developer with three dye images, and three silver images. The result will be a black & white negative. Since a black & white film is void of these incomplete dyes, no such action will occur. Should this happen, the dyes blossom and become cyan, magenta or yellow dye globules, based on which emulsion layer they are in. Its job is to couple with incomplete dyes imbedded in the color film during manufacture. The C-41 color developer also contains a color developer. The result is a negative image of the original vista. The silver portion is precipitated as an opaque tuft of metallic silver. The halogen portion is dissolved by the waters of the developers. They are reduced to their two component parts which are silver and an halogen (Iodine – chlorine – bromine). The developer then goes to work on the exposed silver salts. Its job is to differentiate between exposed and non-exposed silver salts present on the film. The C-41 color developer is a typical (non-staining) black & white developer.
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