Has any one tried.....

[Patrick]

The C-41 processed ILFORD b&w film.

(I know I know...but it's just so much easier to drop off at a 1 hour lab.)

Better than the Kodak brand?

 

[Artemis]

I tried a kodak c-41, and the pics looked kinda green...so it may be.

 

[Walt]

Haven't tried the Ilford C41 B&W. The Kodal is very good. Artemis, if your's turned out green, that's from the lab. I have had no problem.

 

[Patrick]

LOL..I've heard people complain for a red tint before but not a green one. I haven't seen either.

 

[voodoocat]

Don't pay any attention to the prints you get back from the lab. They are printed on the color paper. Take it in and have a real b&w print done, you'll notice a huge difference.

 

[the_peel]

I've tried the Ilford C-41 BW 400ISO film. It's not too bad, but in comparison to real BW film, it's night and day. There's just something about real BW film that this C-41 stuff just can't replicate.

 

[Artemis]

Maybe its cause in every pic with the greenish tint I took pics of grass....and the grass had the tint....

 

[green]

it wouldn't be that... because its reading the world like black and white... monochroamtic. If you had a green tinge, its because of the lab. either they thought it was supposed to be green because its grass, or they just colour corrected it poorly (if at all)

 

[Jeff Canes]

it wouldn't be that... because its reading the world like black and white... monochroamtic. If you had a green tinge, its because of the lab. either they thought it was supposed to be green because its grass, or they just colour corrected it poorly (if at all)

I have seen this before; the green coloring is on the negative. Remember these are color-processed negatives

 

[Jeff Canes]

I have used the Ilford XP2 (C-41) a lot with very good results; ditto about it being intended for printing on B&W paper.

Kodak has three C-41 B&W films - Kodak Black & White 400 is consumer film and available at local drug stores, it is designed for printing at mini-labs; Pro films are TMAX 400CN for B&W paper and Portra 400BW for color paper

The problem of printing traditional B&W negatives at mini-lab, is not as big deal as it one was, because of the new digital mini-labs being used

 

[Corry]

The greenish tint very well could be from the lab, but, it is also possible that the greenish tint is from the lighting in which you are viewing the pictures. I work in a 1-hr lab, and once in a while we get some that look greenish in the flourecent lights, but once you get outside, it looks normal.

I myself have never seen them tinted red, though?

 

[Artemis]

Well....it aint the light...I just think tis the lab

 

[Jeff Canes]

i think it's something about the process,
Personly have shoot dozens of rolls of Ilford
c-41 B&W both 35mm and 120 roll, only have this problem one or two times

 

[Patrick]

Do you like it better than the Kodak stuff?

Honestly I've never seen any kind of "tint" on the prints I've used the C41 BW.

Maybe I'm just luck. For a change!

Thanks for the input.... I'll throw acouple rolls on my next order from B&H.

 

[Shutterbug]

What I do is get my C-41 B&W stuff developed, but not processed... Then I do my own prints from the black and white enlargers at my high school.