mcsimard Posted August 28, 2005 Share Posted August 28, 2005 Anybody ever tried to develop agfa scala b&w slide film in regular b&w negative film chemicals? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich815 Posted August 28, 2005 Share Posted August 28, 2005 Isn't Scala a slide film? I would imagine you can't. (Well you probably can but might not want what results). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcsimard Posted August 28, 2005 Author Share Posted August 28, 2005 Hi Richard, thanks for your responding. I was thinking in terms of a B&W crossed-process; I've had very good results in developing color slides in color negative chemicals (C-41)-which is a fairly common practice-, so I was wondering if anybody had experimented with crossed-process techniques with B&W films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordan_w. Posted August 28, 2005 Share Posted August 28, 2005 The funky effects that come from processing colour slide film in C-41 chemistry are due to strange dye reactions and cross-overs. But Scala is just a regular B&W film that has been optimized to give good results in B&W reversal processing. My guess is that souping Scala in a regular B&W negative process would give you fairly normal-looking negatives on a clear film base. Nothing too exciting, unfortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffrey_blake_adams Posted August 29, 2005 Share Posted August 29, 2005 search for d-45 on google, he knows more about scala than anyone, and has a process for making negs from it. Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevoi Posted August 29, 2005 Share Posted August 29, 2005 Agfa Scala is nothing others than a BW Film with a transparent base and you can develop it in every normal BW developer. I have test it in D-76 but can not remember the process time. The result was thin negatives with much contrast. I think the Scala is too expensive for the results you will get when processed as BW Film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordan_w. Posted August 29, 2005 Share Posted August 29, 2005 Jeffrey probably means DR5, not D-45. DR5 is a lab (now in Colorado) with a proprietary reversal process, and he can reversal-process Scala with his own technique. Stefan's observations are interesting. Thin, contrasty negatives. Sounds like a film optimized for reversal processing (which it is) for projection. Nothing you couldn't do with any other (less expensive) B&W film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andykowalczyk Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 More on Scala and DR5 can be found at: <br> <a href="http://www.dr5.com/scala.html"> http://www.dr5.com/scala.html </a> <br> <a href="http://www.rangefindermag.com/magazine/archives/Jan05/labpro.tml"> http://www.rangefindermag.com/magazine/archives/Jan05/labpro.tml </a> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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