Cross processing C-41 with rodinal.

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Your lab is ignorant of the truth of this matter, or just lying. You should ask your lab's manager to take a look at Kodak data sheet CIS-184: http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professional/support/techPubs/cis184/cis184.pdf. It talks about doing C-41 film in E-6 chemicals, but it may soften them up. E-6 film in a C-41 process is even "safer", based on my own developing results, though I can't seem to find any online Kodak documentation to prove it. I don't replenish when I do C-41, so I have a 60 roll capacity. I have done two dozen rolls in a gallon of chemistry cross processed, and the rest normal. There weren't any problems at all with the normal C-41. I have processed C-41 and E-6 films in the same tank and nothing bad happened.

If it is that much of a problem, you can consider getting your stuff via mail from Freestyle, or whatever the European version of Freestyle is. (Fotoimpex???)

Good luck!

Thanks.

I had a suspicion that the guy was just being an a**hole, since the people I bought the slide film from actually mentioned having it cross-processed there as an alternative (which was why I bought the film in the first place, since it seemed like a fun experiment).
As much as I like living here, there's just some people over here who seem to have such backwards attitudes to these sort of things, there's not much room for the type of work ethic and experimentation you seem to have over there (like C-41 chemistry, alien bees and all sorts of do it yourself tools you seem to have over there).

I think I might just stick to regular black and white film for a while, I just learned a bit on how to get higher contrast in processing and am very impressed by how little grain regular ISO 400 film has.