C41 B&W question

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Do you 'lose' anything shooting C41 black and white over plain b&w films?

9 working day turnaround on b&w at the lab near my office is ridiculous, so I will switch to Ilford XP from HP5, at least until I inevitably get a developing kit :)

A little wary of developing at home, as it's a constant fight to get the apartment a nice temperature for sleeping, let alone developing film!
 
Deving at home isn't a problem really, the fluids only need to be up to temp for a set amount of time and with b&w, that's easy as pie to my mind.

If you used xp2, would you be getting the lab to scan it? If so I think you can get a funny colour cast on account of them scanning it as colour film when, strictly speaking, it not.
 
mid_gen said:
Do you 'lose' anything shooting C41 black and white over plain b&w films?

9 working day turnaround on b&w at the lab near my office is ridiculous, so I will switch to Ilford XP from HP5, at least until I inevitably get a developing kit :)

A little wary of developing at home, as it's a constant fight to get the apartment a nice temperature for sleeping, let alone developing film!
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Have C41 B&W done at Photo Express in Hull, at the moment two films gives you a 50p discount per film for TP members and with scanning, you get a cost inc the 50p postage return cost of less than £10.00 for the two films and a 24/48 hour turnaround time.

I have yet to find a better cost/quality lab in the last 7 years, but, there down side is C41 and 35mm only.

Sorry, I did not see HK :)
 
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