Enlarged color from the negative of FP100C

captain ZZM · May 23, 2016

Well, it is not a good work, the color very nausea but this is my first trying to enlarge color image from pack film. My friend think it is a wasting time thing so we did not trying again.
Anyone has the experience? I had never seen someone try to do it in APUG, the negative is very different compared to c41 color l think and uneven development in the image seems unavailable.

Wayne · May 24, 2016

I've seen worse color images . The reds are reddish, the blues are blueish and the greens are greenish. Are you sure this isn't Kodachrome developed in your bathtub?

Alan9940 · May 24, 2016

You don't give details about the process used to generate the image or how you digitized the negative, but I've been able to pull much better color and image quality from an FP-100C negative. It has been quite a few years since I've messed around with this material because the results obtained were not to my liking. Don't get me wrong...prints from these negs have a certain look, for sure, just not to my taste. Therefore, I stopped playing around with this material.

Your example looks like the pack was not pulled evenly and smoothly to begin development and, maybe, it wasn't cleared properly of all the goo. If you still have some of this film, I do a bit of research on various techniques for recovering the negative and keep working at it.

Good luck!

winger · May 24, 2016

I've gotten passable B&W enlargements from cleared FP100c negs, but I'm not set up to try color. My guess, though, is that it needs some filter tweaking. It doesn't scan quite the same as C-41 film so I'd think it prints slightly differently, too.

bvy · May 25, 2016

I tried this and my experience was similar -- muddy color and poor contrast. Actually I contact printed them. Still...

captain ZZM · May 25, 2016

Alan9940 said:
You don't give details about the process used to generate the image or how you digitized the negative, but I've been able to pull much better color and image quality from an FP-100C negative. It has been quite a few years since I've messed around with this material because the results obtained were not to my liking. Don't get me wrong...prints from these negs have a certain look, for sure, just not to my taste. Therefore, I stopped playing around with this material.

Your example looks like the pack was not pulled evenly and smoothly to begin development and, maybe, it wasn't cleared properly of all the goo. If you still have some of this film, I do a bit of research on various techniques for recovering the negative and keep working at it.

Good luck!

I think the uneven density in the negatives are inevitability or my Polaroid 103 need to be repair. l used Epson scanner to scanned the color photo.

EdSawyer · May 25, 2016

Did you print it with a piece of clear film as a mask? If you are trying to print (RA4) from an FP100c negative, try adding a clear (unexposed but fully developed/bleached/fixed) piece of 4x5 Ektar 100 or other C41 film on top, to get the orange mask. This will allow it to come a lot closer to printing "normally" on RA4. FP100c lacks an orange mask like most color negative films.

bvy · May 25, 2016

EdSawyer said:
Did you print it with a piece of clear film as a mask? If you are trying to print (RA4) from an FP100c negative, try adding a clear (unexposed but fully developed/bleached/fixed) piece of 4x5 Ektar 100 or other C41 film on top, to get the orange mask. This will allow it to come a lot closer to printing "normally" on RA4. FP100c lacks an orange mask like most color negative films.

Interesting idea. I thought you could have dealt with that with filtration. For instance, I can print cross processed Provia (no mask) to RA-4 just fine, but the filtration is very different from negative film.

captain ZZM · May 26, 2016

EdSawyer said:
Did you print it with a piece of clear film as a mask? If you are trying to print (RA4) from an FP100c negative, try adding a clear (unexposed but fully developed/bleached/fixed) piece of 4x5 Ektar 100 or other C41 film on top, to get the orange mask. This will allow it to come a lot closer to printing "normally" on RA4. FP100c lacks an orange mask like most color negative films.

Not right, when l painted from Rollei CN200, it is non-mask but l also can got normal color. The problem with pack-film is the density too thin.

EdSawyer · May 26, 2016

Thin density - likely so. But a mask of regular C41 film is going to help in any case, not hurt, in general. And sure you may be able to correct for the lack of a mask with filtration but the mask gets you a lot closer to a normal starting point right off the bat.

Enlarged color from the negative of FP100C

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