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Starting fitlration for printing Kodak BW400CN?

Vonder

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I have a nice Kodak BW400CN negative that I want to try printing, but haven't a clue what color settings to start out with. Kodak's guide says to use whatever you print Porta with and add 5M. Useless to me as I almost never shoot Portra.

Anyone print this stuff and have a good start point? I'm printing to Fuji (of course) Crystal Archive type C paper.

Should I post this in the color forum?
 

Kevin Caulfield

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So, this is a C41 processed BW neg, but you are going to print it to colour paper? Why?
 

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It has an orange mask and won't print easily on normal b&w paper.
 

Terry Christian

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I don't have a dichro color head, but BW400CN prints just fine on my condenser Omega D2 enlarger to regular B&W paper, no special treatment needed. You might want to bump up the contrast one filter grade, but even that may not be necessary.
 
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