>> You can process _any_ B&W film into reversal. Just works best with >> certain films and developers.
WR> Not quite. I tried the Kodak reversal kit on a variety of films and got WR> varying results, including one glorious roll of Ilford film whose emulsion WR> fell off the base. Heh :) I guess it was the chemical reversing agent? If so, old-fashioned reversal by exposure to light could work without problems. Or the bleach? I don't know what the Kodak kit is made from. I was more thinking about Communist-era recipes which included "hacked" recipes for a lot of proprietary (incl. Western) processes, and which still are a wealth of wisdom for processing (the "DIY" culture was much more prevalent here when you couldn't buy the official kit). Although I believe you are much more versed in chemistry than me, being a long-time lab worker, so I am not sure about the issue. I believed simple bleaching and reversal by light would work with any B&W film. Just by the nature of the beast. Of course, depending on film base, gradation curve and other things, with some films it wouldn't be worth the effort, and one would have to experiment. Frantisek
