Photography on film - developing C-41 film in B&W chemistry.

Some long time ago week I combined two new me techniques in this batch – semi-stand and processing C-41 film in B&W chemistry. what prompted me to develop color negatives (it was Kodak Ektar 100) with black and white chemistry??? I have no idea, maybe a desire to experiment with film and Ektar was exposed more than a year ago and waited for attention in my fridge. until some time I used local lab service to develop color film (slides and negatives), but last time two of color 120 rolls exposed in Ethiopia were spoiled in this lab.

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The developing process is very simple – actually the same as B&W negatives developing. during the way of my “home education,” I learned to be very accurate with temperature, measures, and attentiveness in agitation. more than this – I decided to make it semi-stand – one hour of developing that can help to achieve the better tonal range and confidence that this long process will be less aggressive to the foreign emulsion.

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The result I got was dirty and grimy – i read about in forums when i did the home works about this not native process, but somewhere inside my was hope for a miracle… 🙂 and a miracle happened when i started the scanning process. you can see the results below – clean and crispy, sharp and toned well scans of 12 frames.

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A few words about photography gear, soup, and times I used. Hasselblad 500cm with Planar 80mm f/2.8 attached. Kodak Ektar color negative 120 film. 2 minutes of soaking in a clean 20C water. 1+100 Rodinal (one shoot) developer – one hour with one turn in the middle. one-minute agitation in a clean 20C water and finally 8 min of fixing in Agfa Fix-AG 1+7. 2 minutes of the wetting agent at the end.

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Hasselblad 500cm
Planar 80/2.8
Kodak Ektar 100
Rodinal 1:100 semi-stand developing process.

Partially taken from my blog post :
http://www.victorbezrukov.com/semi-stand-developing-c-41-film-in-bw-chemistry/

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