What would happen if I used a colour negative with B&W paper and chemicals?
IIRC the image is low contrast, a bit grainy and with some colours having unexpected tonal response.
They work just fine and with the right negative you can get good results in my experience. Different 'colours' on the negative can act as a colour filter and hence you get odd bits of local contrast (ie, something very green - magenta on the neg - can print very contrasty), but you can alter contrast using magenta & yellow filters, or with standard multigrade filters as you would a bw neg and on the whole it's manageable. Exposure times are very long though compared to bw negs due to the density of the orange base so id' perhaps do a first test strip with 15s intervals to get a rough feel
Why not print in colour; I know you will need more kit and colour chemicals. I used to do this; some of my darkroom session would have been B&W an some colour.
Dave
My enlarger is very basic, don't I need a colour filter head to get good colour prints.Why not print in colour; I know you will need more kit and colour chemicals. I used to do this; some of my darkroom session would have been B&W an some colour.
Dave
My enlarger is very basic, don't I need a colour filter head to get good colour prints.