On 7/9/10, Paul Ewins <paulew...@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > Christine, > I used some of the C41 B&W film way back and found that when > it was printed > on regular colour paper the contrast was way too high. I could take the same > neg and > print it myself on B&W paper and it would be just fine. In the end I just > regarded the prints > from the processor as fist run proofs for weeding out the obvious mistakes.
ISTR Kodak produces (produced?) two different varieties of C41 B&W film. One variety was designed to be printed on standard B&W paper. So the negatives had the correct tonal range for that. The other variety was designed to be printed using a standard color printer. So the negatives had the correct (compressed) tonal range for that. Maybe that accounts for the differences? -Mat -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
