Russ
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Hello Fellow RF Snapper's;
I just thought I'd pass this on. About three years ago, I discovered that Fuji Neopan 400 negatives, print up rather well onto color paper from those "one hour" machines. It's a traditional silver based film, so you have to have it souped normally. But once you have the negatives, if you just want some small proof prints, they look quite good. That's how most of the B/W images on my funky little website were made. By scanning the proof prints on my flatbed. Souping the negs is a bit pricier than using the chromogenic (C-41 process) B/W film, but the Neopan has a much nicer tonal range and is a sharper film.
I've actually had some 8"x10" enlargements made onto the color paper, and they look real nice. It's no substitute for traditional B/W paper, but it's much faster and cheaper, if you aren't doing your own darkroom work. The attached image was scanned from one of these little "one hour" machine prints, on color paper. The local B/W lab soups my B/W films in X-Tol, and the results are very good. A great combination. For street shooting, I usually burn my Neopan 400 @ 320, through a deep yellow (#15) filter. The attached image was unfiltered during exposure, due to overcast skies and I couldn't afford the light loss due to the filter.
Russ
I just thought I'd pass this on. About three years ago, I discovered that Fuji Neopan 400 negatives, print up rather well onto color paper from those "one hour" machines. It's a traditional silver based film, so you have to have it souped normally. But once you have the negatives, if you just want some small proof prints, they look quite good. That's how most of the B/W images on my funky little website were made. By scanning the proof prints on my flatbed. Souping the negs is a bit pricier than using the chromogenic (C-41 process) B/W film, but the Neopan has a much nicer tonal range and is a sharper film.
I've actually had some 8"x10" enlargements made onto the color paper, and they look real nice. It's no substitute for traditional B/W paper, but it's much faster and cheaper, if you aren't doing your own darkroom work. The attached image was scanned from one of these little "one hour" machine prints, on color paper. The local B/W lab soups my B/W films in X-Tol, and the results are very good. A great combination. For street shooting, I usually burn my Neopan 400 @ 320, through a deep yellow (#15) filter. The attached image was unfiltered during exposure, due to overcast skies and I couldn't afford the light loss due to the filter.
Russ
