Kodak Portra 400 c-41 film in black and white chemicals
some of you probably remember i finished this once – i developed Kodak Ektar 100 C-41 film in B&W chemistry. you can call this “experimentation process”, but i was sure that i’m confidently going to lose some frames with the moment of life, and i already forget what was exposed to the frames of this film and i always do feel that the loosing of taken moments is absolutely crime. To my surprise I got excellent results – every single frame turned out very crispy and contrasty. and more then this – i was happy to see that the moments and places taken to this Ektar in black and white looked more interesting due this chemical conversation.
so, i did it again – this time i developed Kodak Portra 400 in R09 One Shot (Rodinal ??). i got much more grain, of course – ISO400 opp ISO100. Taken with Fujifilm GA645 camera. why i decided to develop this roll this way? i have no patience to wait for the local lab slow color film dev process. 🙂
Will I do it again ? ofcourse !!
on the part of this roll were portraits of my friends, snapped during my “behind the scenes” shootings.
may be i will post these portraits next time.
enjoy the 645 format frames
thank you for visit !!
Victor, these images are fantastic! The results from your C-41 in b&w chemistry are much better than I would have expected and indeed appear near indentical to traditional b&w negative results. Now I feel more confident in trying this process. Thanks for sharing this inspiring work!!
Huge thank you Sam ! Last weekend i developed some very old (expired 2007) roll of Kodak professional 400 c-41 film. I used semi stand as usual and got very nice results jist more grainy then usual bit its because that the roll (and i have additional one) was all the tile on the table and not in a fridge. I will post the results very soon !
No problem Victor! I’ve seen C-41 in b&w chemistry results and most are usually very grainy with blown highlights. Yours looked fantastic and I am looking forward to the next set!
I think that because i use stand dev-p process and because of not agressive agitation but very safe native diffusion the frames are not too grainy and blown and i more sure with the results even i use some unknown stuff like last time when the film wasnt in a fridge all 10 years 😉
Hi, What developing times you used to develop the Kodak Portra 400 c-41? Thanks
Hey Paul. all the -41 film roles i developed with Rodinal using the semi-stand developing techniques. i take 1+100 Rodinal and put the film for one hour of stand with the only a few inversions in the middle. so i have 30min and 30 min of completely stand in very weak chemicals. Hope this help.