B & W Slide film?

modafoto said:

I have used it for a few shots, and here in DK we are so lucky to have a company that develops them. It costs approx. $9 per roll and I send them the films and they return it within a week. Very nice service.

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I did a couple of rolls Scala 200 some time ago and had them processed at B&W (now Xposure) unfortunately they have stopped doing the scala process and "rumours" has it that scala is being discontinued, maybe its only here in Denmark and maybe its just a bad excuse. I really like the film/slides and would use it more if it wasn't for the above and the price. Which process are using at Dr5 ?
Regards Søren

Hi !
I've done a lot of things with B&W slides.
First I used to process C41 B&W film (Ilford's, Kodak's, Konica ) in E6 chemistry using the time/IE found in an old paper in "photo techniques" Nice looking, without color cast, and smooth subtle gradation. Best results when exposing for IE 100 processed in Kodak 7 baths chemistry (standard stuff) filsm had gone through a custom made dip and dunk line at my camera club, but a friend of mine used a Jobo/kodak process with very comparable results.
I've made copies of B&W negs (slightly cropped using a Bowens repro unit for color slides) on FP4 and TMX. mixed feelings, but cropping possible.
I've tried to mix my own kit to invert normal film. It proved difficult to get the correct chemicals at right price/quantities (less than 100 pounds ;-) ) so I've abandened that way.
A friend at my camera club has used scanning normal B&W negs, inverted (to go back to neg) and tweaked in PS, and output to film in a image setter. PS shows and film output is difficult to master.
I've bought a Foma kit and plan to put into use soon.
Hope this helps.

Agfa Scala and Fomapan R100 and films like the R3 are suitable to develop in the Foma slide developer kit.
On the internet there is a German publication about it: http://www.schwarzweiss-magazin.de/swmag_frame_leser.htm

RJR who's also member of APUG has been made a lot of efforts to check things out.
Very interesting article.

Best regards,

Robert

www.FotohuisRoVo.nl