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Re: [OM] OT: B/W prints from colour negs

Subject: Re: [OM] OT: B/W prints from colour negs
From: Wayne Harridge <wayneharridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 08:30:07 +1000



> Bernd Möller <dsl33687a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> After recently having invested in used, fairly low tech b/w lab
> equipment and installed a darkroom I wonder now whether I can produce
> decent prints from my colour negatives. I tried this, but the results
> are quite poor due to the lack of black and white contrast. In
> addition, the film base material is orange or reddish, which means
> even worse conditions. 
> Does anybody in the OM community have some good suggestions? Are the
> papers, chemicals, filter or so that can enhance the B/W print
> capabilities of colour negatives? 

Kodak used to make a paper for this purpose (from my bad memory Panalure ?), 
which was panchromatic, so had reasonable sensitivity to the "orange" light 
coming through the mask.  Check the Kodak web site.

Wayne Harridge
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