Ektar 100 Developed in XTOL

[Michael P.]

I accidentally developed a roll of color Ektar 100 in XTOL, a black and white developer. Ektar roll paper is black and white, and I grabbed a roll by mistake instead of Ilford FP4. I developed it in XTOL for 8 minutes, standard processing for FP4. I adjusted the contrast in PhotoShop Elements using only Auto Quick Fix. The results are here: http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=8069&ppuser=

 

[amateriat]

Interesting...accidents do happen, but they don't always end in tears. 🙂


- Barrett

 

[charjohncarter]

Easily scanned, low grain, not to bad shadows, maybe with different exposure and developing control (Xytol), you could have a B&W winner; nice going.

 

[crawdiddy]

Not bad. I guess film is film, after all.

 

[Michael P.]

Not bad. I guess film is film, after all.

Yeah, but it surprised the heck out of me when the developer poured out pink. 😀

 

[squirrel$$$bandit]

Hell, that's not bad at all! Interesting accident.

 

[planetjoe]

Seriously? Those images didn't turn out bad at all.

I'm not immediately familiar with what the negs should look like after processing for B&W; is the orange cast still present? Some of the images suggest a blue cast, but this could just be my monitor.

Happy accident!


Cheers,
--joe.

 

[Svitantti]

All films use silver gelatin, color processing usually removes it in the bleach and fix phases (and color dev develops the color dyes as well as the grain). So it is no wonder this works - but nice that it worked so well with this kind of accident.

Dont try the other way 😉. Bleach + fix will result in a blank B&W film...

 

[Michael P.]

The orange cast is still there, but the colors themselves are gone. The negatives are very pale with a slight blue tint, but they wouldn't scan as black and white. I had to select color scanning.

BTW - I dropped off a roll of Ektar at a major pro photo shop yesterday. The clerk at the counter carefully examined the printing on the roll to make sure what it was. Kodak needs to make the paper for that film more recognizable.