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Question

Hi, I have developed black and white film myself for about a year, and I have always used Black and white film. I was wondering...if I used color film and sent it away to be developed so I would get color copies, could I use the negatives to make black and white pictures in my dark room?

Thanks!!

Answer 1

I have tried this and the picture quality is not that great. So im not gonig to advise you to do this. Working with colour film in the dark room can be fun but there is some hesitation with it, as the chemicals used to develop it might be a health concern...haha.

But if you feel like it , go ahead and experiment!  

Answer 2

Yes you can you can do it on KODAK PANALURE SELECT RC Paper or KODAK EKTAMAX RA Professional Paper. You may need a 40 cyan filter to get better results

here are some links on it

http://www.kodak.com/country/RU/ru/profe...

http://www.ehow.com/how_18411_make-black...

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1...

Answer 3

Yes, you can. However, because the color negative is in many shades of red, your black and white paper will not see some of these shades and your print will be often high contrasty and very funny looking. The pink normally found in skin is gone and people look all pasty and real &#039;white&#039;... If used carefully it could however be used in a artsi fartsi way and very curious looking prints could be made. Now, I know were talking BW here, but todays BW film sees in Panachromatic, it sees all colors, but as tones of gray.. People look good. A apple is darker gray, etc..

There was, and most likely still is, a paper that is BW but sees all the &quot;colors&quot; like B&amp;W film does. It is a Panachromatic paper vrs Orthochromatic paper, like standard BW dark room paper. This paper needs a little extra special handling because you can NOT use your darkroom safe lights. They will fog the paper now because it now sees red light too.. If you get this paper - Panalure - you have to handle it in total darkness... and here you HAVE to set up your correct exposure and then develop for a precise time limit, 2 or 3 minutes in the developer then on to your stop bath then fixer. Once in the fixer for a couple minutes, you may now turn on your safe lights and see if you have a good print. If not, adjust exposure time under the enlarger but always leave development times the same. Pick 2 or 3 minutes and stay with it. Period..! Go for it.. Have fun...

You might find your self thinking about doing color. Go for it.. Give it a try.. It&#039;s NOT that hard and the chemicals are NOT going to kill or harm you unless you drink them. Some do find they may be sensitive to them, like the acid in stop bath or fixer, others, nothing.. I have been doing color since the lat 60&#039;s and am fine.. haha

Bob - Tucson

Answer 4

I develop my own black and white film and prints at home too...and I&#039;ve always wondered the same thing.  Could you put color negatives on an enlarger and make B&amp;W prints from it?  Maybe, but the problem is that black and white photo paper isn&#039;t sensitive to red light.  Remember that all the colors are reversed in a negative.  So I think one thing that might happen is if the pictures were taken outside, the sky will be completely washed out...which tends to happen with a B&amp;W film anyway, if you don&#039;t use a yellow filter on the camera.  Objects that were blue or red will probably just be unexposed on the photo paper, so they&#039;ll just look completely white...which I guess doesn&#039;t really make any difference with B&amp;W prints.

So honestly, I don&#039;t know.  The contrast might be really high and you might not have that much tonality because you&#039;re losing some colors from the negatives...just because the B&amp;W photo paper isn&#039;t sensitive to certain colors.  Also, it seems like color negatives are more dense than B&amp;W film, so you might have to use a slightly longer exposure on the enlarger.  

But hey, give it a try!  I&#039;m really curious if it would work too!  I think I have heard of people doing it before.  At the worst, you lose maybe a couple of sheets of photo paper and waste a little bit of developer and fixer.  No big deal.

Answer 5

Yes you can. I do it all the time. It is the same thing. the time might be a little more or a little less than it would be using black and white film but yes you can still do it. I think the pictures look a little better.