Would using negative to shoot on a developed negative result a positive?

Would using negative to shoot on a developed negative result a positive?

 

Just wondering if anyone have tried this.

"Would using negative to shoot on a developed negative result a positive?"

 

Yes, of course.

This is the way that B&W movie stock is printed.

 

However, normal camera film will give a low contrast positive. You really need to use something with a bit more contrast. Try Pan F (if it's still available) and extend the development by around 20%.

Did it once. As above, very low contrast.

It depends. Negative film doesn't necessarily work exactly like, say, inverting an image in Photoshop. If either film has (respectively both films have) an orange mask, then that needs to be taken into consideration too.

Kodak use to make a film specifically for this. I have an unopened 100ft roll kicking around.

 

It's a color negative film on a clear base. The data sheet specifies illuminating the negative to be copied with, I think, 3200K tungsten lighting(which is in the range of studio hot lights). If you use the wrong color temperature, the color won't be correct. It is also specified as being only for Kodak films, although you'd probably get passable results with other color negatives.

For a long time, that was the only way to produce positive transparencies from film, B&W or color. There was a special film for making B&W transparencies for classrooms and cinema. Now cinema shot on film is digitized, graded, then printed dititally to make copies, or projected digitally. The orange mask of color negative film is intentional, to control contrast. The orange mask is not used for print film.

Waohh!! That's a lot of new things to know.

 

I'm just planning on doing it on B&W.

So I should consider the backlighting color from the film base too.

 

Thank you guys.

Waohh!! That's a lot of new things to know.

 

For sure.

Ordinary, silver-based, B&W film can also be reversal developed (http://www.mr-alvandi.com/technique/reversal-processing-black-and-white-films.html), but that is even trickier, I think., so you probably don't want to go there right now.