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Fuji Superia X-tra 800 in b/w developper???


Maurice van Cleef

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Dear forum members, 

 

Recently i ran into 50 rolls of superia 800, but i want to develop them as B/W. Does anyone have real experience with developping this film? Whem searching the net I'd found some questions on this subject-but no real answers....

I would also like to know how you would rate this film, what developper and what times/temperatures you've used.

Thanks in advance!

 

Maurice

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Maurice , it's possible
I did once with Kodak Portra and also some contributors on the forum "Other"  "I like film" ,

look at their photos.  For Fuji 800 expect to have beautiful grains :)
Development is done as recommended by the manufacturer of the developer.

In color , you need 3mn25 at 38°C Tetenal

In b&w I tried 3mn30 20°C in Ilford HC

Best

Henry

http://www.mraggett.co.uk/C41processing/index.htm

https://jcstreetwolf.wordpress.com/2014/08/26/developing-color-film-in-black-and-white-developer/

http://darkshape.blogspot.fr/2011/12/49-guide-to-developing-c-41-films-in-b.html

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I accidentally developed a roll of Ektar 100 in TMax developer (2 tanks, two films - one colour and one B&W, in the same changing bag. You can guess what happened.) The negative was dark, but the scanner coped:

 

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Bicycle by chrism229, on Flickr

 

Now I routinely develop XP2 in Rodinal (1:100, semi-stand for an hour), but I have never tried Superia 800 this way. No reason it can't be done, but you might need to experiment with times.

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I'll give it a try and will post the results over here! 

(and otherwise there is the Fuji C-41 kit....)

 

With the simplicity of working with a Tetenal C41 kit (others are available), which is just as easy as B&W processing and no special equipment, I would have thought it logical to process it as colour film and then have the option of converting to B&W later?

 

Steve

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