kodak colour plus film

[momo]

I was in our local poundland shop yesterday when I spotted boxes of 20 individual films, marked as 2 kodak colour plus 24exp for a pound, so me being cheap and learning, picked up 3 trays of them and headed for the tills, at seeing this they freaked and told me they had been incorrectly marked up, they were a pound each. ok I thought, so I got one tray full and some pretty funny looks from peeps with it.

Now I know nothing about colour stuff, but hey, at this price if I mess them up its a cheap learning curve, so now I need a list of developer etc for doing these, I did look on kodak.com but I can't seem to find the developer data etc, maybe I am just not intelligent enough to see the link so can anyone here tell me what I would need to develop these things in a jobo cpa unit please. Oh and if anyone works for Kodak here, why dont you put it on the inside of the pack like Ilford do!!!. us begginers like that kind of thing.

Oh and no I dont work for poundland so i'm not "touting". Roll on thursday cos I get paid again and you can guess where I am going..........

 

[mabman]

Not sure what you're asking exactly - Color Plus is a C-41 film, so you need to process it using C-41 chemistry. Kodak and Fuji chems may not be readily available in small quantities in your area, but you can get various kits to do it yourself, eg, Unicolor. Or you can just pay the minimal amount for your local photo store to do a "develop only" process with them - usually ends up being a couple of dollars on this side of the pond.

 

[railwayman3]

Yes, it's a standard 200ASA print film, C-41 process. Other kits available in the UK are by Tetenal and Speedibrews. It's really just a matter of following the instructions, times and temperature, carefully....not like a B&W film where you have numerous options of modifying the results with different devs and times.
IMHO, it's rather a cheap-and-cheerful "snapshot" film , the kind that you usually get as a "free film with every film processed" at the local minilab.

 

[momo]

Thanks guys, will get some tetenal as I see it on ebay, as for the cheap snapshot film thing, its all good, at least I learn on the cheap and dont ruin a good film!!. I seem to be doing a lot of that lately with B&W ones. Hey hang on! free films at minilabs......wait till I speak to the joker at our local superstore tesco. me and him are having words...........

 

[Michel Hardy-Vallée]

Kodak Colour Plus is a really unimpressive film, so don't feel bad about ruining your first rolls! It's bottom-of-the-barrel but doesn't have anything wild or weird about it that could excite even a LOMO diehard. In fact, I wouldn't call it a colour film: it's more like a brown-and-grey film...

Gold films on the other hand, there's something to do with them, as far as cheapies go. They have some nicer saturation and contrast.

But the beauty of C-41, is that once you got your process fine, you can develop the good, expensive pro films exactly the same way and expect exciting results.

 

[Aurum]

I bought a load of them as well, as I decided I wanted to mess around with alternative process methods on colour film. Hell for a quid its rude not to!

They also do the Ferrania Solaris in my local poundland as well in 36's.

I actually prefer this to the Color Plus, as it is IMHO slightly sharper, but with more pastel colour rendition, which I like for shots of castles and buildings in general

 

[wogster]

Not sure what you're asking exactly - Color Plus is a C-41 film, so you need to process it using C-41 chemistry. Kodak and Fuji chems may not be readily available in small quantities in your area, but you can get various kits to do it yourself, eg, Unicolor. Or you can just pay the minimal amount for your local photo store to do a "develop only" process with them - usually ends up being a couple of dollars on this side of the pond.

Okay, where can you get a Unicolor kit in Canada?