Konica 220 film

[hughes]

I would appreciate any input about Konica 400 Centuria pro film I have an

opportunity to buy a good stock of fresh well kept 220 film at a very

reasonable price. My equipment seems to prefer 220 film and it is easier to

use,but getting increasingly harder to find.

 

I will shoot 6x17 negs and scan them on an Epson 3200 flat bed. My scanner

seems to like low contrast color neg film and B&W C41 film. I know the purists

and experts will all be telling me I need to use a better scanner but I have

found that if you can keep the neg flat this is good for an acceptable 10x30

enlargement if I need bigger I will outsource the scan.

 

Here's the questions

1. I shoot black and white how will this film (Konica) desaturated compare to

say TRI X or Ilford HP5 or Chromogenic B&W film. How does this film compare

with other low contrast color films. The advantages of this film seem great to

me, easy and inexpensive to develop and much more consistent results than

traditional Black and white development even using a good lab I tend to get

overdeveloped B&W negs quite often.( Please don't tell me to develop my own I

being doing it for 30 years or so but now don't have good facilities and I'm

much to old to load tanks in the closet.}.

 

So all things being equal what would be better using the Konica color film or

Kodak BW400CN or traditional B&W film which even if I buy shordated is more

expensive than the color film. I have no experience of Konica film and would

apopreciate any input.

 

 

regards Steve<div></div>

[User_502260]

I have used Konica film for some time either under the Konica name or under the drug store names. My experience is that the 100 and 200 speed films were correctly rated but that the 400 and 800 speed films were more like 320 and 640 respectively. The worst problem with these films over the years was that the labs which did not change their settings from Kodak and Fuji print films would give you very flat results. The same was true with the Scotch/Imation/Ferrania films. If you give between 1/3 and 1/2 of an extra stop of exposure you should wind up with a negative with the right density. Color adjustment isn't an issue because you will be scanning all of the negatives and you can adjust things then.

[dave_cheng1]

If you are talking about Konica-Minolta Pro 400 negative film it's a very good low contrast film. In my opinion you should not waste them for the application for B&W images. Color films are never as sharp as black and white films. Because this Konica film is really a very good color negative film I really suggest to use it as it is meant to. See my example shot of the Konica film. Sorry, I have posted this image a few days ago in another thread. But it is really more appropriate to be posted here. So here it goes again.<div></div>