I took a year of black and white film photography and loved it, and would like to try color on my own. Can someone describe the main differences for developing colored film as well as making colored prints? Or link me to a nice tutorial (that has temperature and timing charts). Also, can you make black and white prints on normal black and white paper by using colored negatives? Thanks!
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andy w says
If you have already some good experience of b&w developing and printing then going to colour should not be that hard.
However, the processes are more temperature and time critical and obviously the chemicals are different.
In the printing process you need a different enlarger or at least one which will accept colour filters and the development of the paper needs to be done under different conditions.
Rather than trying to find a tutorial (have you tried google?) you would be better off going to your library or bookshop and buying a book on the subject.
Yes you can make black and white prints with coloured negatives, they do not however look the same as "normal" black and white as they are more grainy and contrasty unless you use panalure paper.
Bruce M says
The color film is harder to do only due to the extra steps. You can buy home kits no problem.
The same with the color paper and chem for that. You do need NO light in the darkroom and a color set of filters or color head on your enlarger. Most ppl use developing tubes to put the prints in for two reasons, One, you can turn the lights back on to see what your doing with the chemistry and two most of the chem. you use are one use so you do not use a lot at a time.
Here is one how to.