----- Original Message ----- From: "Antti-Pekka Virjonen" Subject: Kodak B&W "color negative"
> How well does the Kodak "color negative" B&W film BW400CN work ? > > Does a calibrated minilab produce good neutral greys on color > paper when this film is printed ? Any metamerism (shifting of the > neutral greys towards some other color like red or green when > viewed under different lighting conditions[tungsten/daylight]) ? It works well. Very fine grain, not bad contrast range. If you are talking about the older T400CN, it is actually designed to be printed on black and white paper, and has awful image permanence. If you are talking about the newer Select B&W (similar to Portra B&W), (quite a deep mask) (your regional name may be different from mine), it prints better on colour paper. It is pretty hard to get a perfectly neutral print, as any slight colour cast will stick out. OTOH, few black and white papers are perfectly neutral anyway. Metamerism is a function of the paper, not the film, your question regarding this can't be answered in relation to the film product. William Robb
