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Have a nice Contax G2 recently bought. Now i use Ilford Delta 400 films BW. But i wonder why not use a color film like Fuji PRO 400H or Fuji Superia X-tra 400 and do conversion in LR or PS.
What are the specific advantages and disadvantages doing this?:confused:
I haven't prepared a tutorial but here goes.
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Well, if you start with a colour neg then you'd have to make either a b&w or colour interpositive first, then a final b&w printing neg. You can do it for sure, but it's harder because you then have two steps over which to control contrast. Controlling contrast with colour materials is going to be harder. But doable.
Mark, do you mean going from E6 -> c41 and then RA4 prints? That's doable but again it introduces another generation. What I do for my E6 prints is drum scan and lightjet, which produces *no* generational optical losses, *no* colour balance issues... and the output is on RA4 paper. Not to incite arguments here but people who think E6 has to be done on ilfo/ciba need to wake up and smell the coffee
My question was for starting with E-6
Ah okay, sorry. So sure, you can make a dupe c41 neg from a slide. I think it'll be difficult to get it just right. For one thing I'd worry about the light source, it'd have to be bang on 5000K.
Someone mentioned Panalure w/o that name. I don't think there is any color neg to B&W paper left on the market, is there?
What are the specific advantages and disadvantages of doing this?
For the purposes of traditional photographic process, shooting black and white film is vastly superior to digital conversions, because digital conversions are not traditional photographic process at all. This reminds me of why I hate digital cameras....you can't put film in them, so they are worthless to me, since they are not actually proper cameras at all, but digital image aquisition and processing devices, and they have no place in my workflow because I work with film. Digital cameras cannot be better or worse than film cameras, because they would have to be film cameras in the first place to be even comparable. Such it is with the comparison of digital conversions and black and white film.
Different tools. Enjoy the diversity.
This kind of elitist, illogical, and emotional nonsense gets my hackles up.
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