Can you develop colour film in Black and white chemicals?

wilper · Nov 28, 2012

wilper said:
I tried Fuji C200 in Maco Ecoprint B/W chem (1+12, 5 min, 20C) and I got some pictures on the roll at least.

You can see the results here:
https://photofying.wordpress.com/2012/11/09/experiments-with-film-roll-4

Keep in mind that I'm a beginner at this whole film development stuff, so I may have gotten worse than necessary results due to mistakes in other parts of the process.

I see that I draw some traffic to the blog through here, so there's some interest in this kind of cross processing. I did another roll yesterday, and scanned it as colour negative film. The results can be seen here: https://photofying.wordpress.com/2012/11/28/experiments-with-film-roll-11/

leon bren · Jan 7, 2017

Not quite the same. but an Ebay purchase of paper gave me some boxes of AgfaColor of indeterminate age. This sort of develops quite well in normal b&w chemistry and liths very well - perhaps it needs a bit more exposure to bring up the contrast. The prints come out with a rather brownish colour (sort of like sepia toning). No sign of fogging under a sodium vapour safelight either. Fun to do occasionally, although no real advantage (other than the boxes of paper are sitting there) than the regular stuff one might use.

Leon Bren
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mnemosyne · Jan 7, 2017

leon bren said:
Not quite the same. but an Ebay purchase of paper gave me some boxes of AgfaColor of indeterminate age. This sort of develops quite well in normal b&w chemistry and liths very well - perhaps it needs a bit more exposure to bring up the contrast. The prints come out with a rather brownish colour (sort of like sepia toning). No sign of fogging under a sodium vapour safelight either. Fun to do occasionally, although no real advantage (other than the boxes of paper are sitting there) than the regular stuff one might use.

Leon Bren
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Current CN papers don't have enough silver in them to form a solid black when developed in b&w developer, at least that is my experience. The darkest tone I was able to get was a Kodak gray card kind of gray, which makes them kind of useless for normal pictorial use. But maybe I did something wrong or older CN papers had a higher silver content. What is the exact designation of the paper you used?

rpavich · Jan 7, 2017

What do they call it when you reply to a thread that's been dead for 5 years? A zombie thread or something?

jamesvdm · Jul 11, 2019

It’s called a “necro”.

removed account4 · Jul 11, 2019

jamesvdm said:
It’s called a “necro”.

Maybe, but at least it is still relevant . Plenty of people have c4t1 and e6 film thta they don't
want to spend 10$ to have it processed or processed and not sent back the negatives
developing the film in b/w developer and scanning it is an easy solution and it works great. I have
a whole bunch of Velveeta ( the old and good stuff ) and Portra 160 sheet film that i will be doing this to in the months to come.
If you use Caffenol the stain helps mask the orange and yellow masks.

YMMV

Photo Chemist · Jul 11, 2019

Yes. I've done it. But I don't remember what chemicals I used (I really need to take better notes). I do remember that a pre-soak was involved. I developed a roll of Kodak Gold 200. It was in the camera when it was gifted to me. Before sticking in another roll, I wanted to see if it still worked. The orange mask was still there. A faint image could be seen when held up to the light, and when scanned a definite image was seen. The negatives needed a bit of help in LR, since they were rather thin. Here's one (unedited and edited).

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