P3D Re: PHOTO-3D digest 3612

[Nick Merz <merz@xxxxxxxxx>]

>
> >>I do lots of 3D shooting with a Viewmaster camera and a Sputnik
> >>medium format camera.  I am keen to do some work in black and white,
> >>but have encountered nothing but trouble so far.  Attempting to get a
> >>>lab to use E-6 processing on some C-41 black and white film destroyed
> >>a month and a half of work.
>
>If you want good black and white, USE BLACK AND WHITE FILM. You are having
>terrible results processing color film to black and white (C41) 
>negatives using
>reversal processing. No wonder. At one time, labs did not want to 
>process slides
>as negatives because of the potential contamination problems. I am 
>sure this is
>part of your problem.
>RM


I have gotten a wealth of responses to my query.  Grazie mille.
I will this very holiday weekend buy the Kodak reversal processing 
kit and make some slides.  Serves me right for not asking the experts 
first and relying solely on the nose-pickers at Wolf Camera.

However, I do want to clear up the misunderstanding above.  The film 
I referred to WAS a black and white film.  I believe it was Kodak 
TCN400 which, under normal circumstances, gets C-41 processing and 
yields black and white negatives.  I assume that Kodak's intention 
with this film was to give B&W photographers the chance to use 1-hour 
labs to process their negs.  I was told by the shark who sold me this 
stuff that it could be cross-processed with E-6 to produce positives. 
What actually happened was that I handed it off, then it was handed 
off again, then again, then someone read "C-41" printed on the 
canister, etc.

Just out of curiosity, would a normally-C-41 film ruin the chemistry 
if it got processed as E-6?

Nick