[pure-silver] Re: printing Kodak's C-41 "black and white" film

>
>     Kodak has a couple of films, which one are you using?


On the can it just says "black and white" and it's 400 iso.

>The use of a panchromatic paper, like Kodak
>Panalure, will shorten the exposures but this is a graded
>paper and is expensive. About all you can do is to
>experiment with the VC filters on your parcitular enlarger
>to find which gives desirable contrast and increase the
>exposure time to whatever is required.


OK.

>    Ilford's chromogenic B&W film does not have a mask and is
>intended to print on B&W paper. It produces a color cast on
>color paper unless substantial equalizing filtering is used
>but it is not intended primarily for that. On the
>conventional materials it is designed for it is superior, at
>least in that it doesn't require handling differently than
>silver based B&W film.
>

I bet that's what my friends are using.  I just got the film i could 
find at the Walmart in Algood, TN. But, I'll try to print them and 
see if it's worth the trouble.

--shannon
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