Fuji Neopan 400CN @ Asda

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I ran a roll of Neopan 400CN through my newly acquired Pentax K1000.

My understanding was that this black and white film can be developed in C41 chemicals. In fact, it has C41 written in big letters on the packet.

I took the roll to the local Asda, but the woman on the photodesk said she couldn't process a B&W film. I explained that it was my belief that it would be okay in the color machine but she said that it would wipe the film. She examined the leader of the roll and said she definately couldn't process it for me. She suggested Boots, as 'they have the chemicals for black and white film'.

Does this sound right? :shrug:

Dropped the film in at Photo Express for processing. Hope I have better luck there.
 
She was talking nonsense, and even if it was b&w process her recommendation of taking it to Boots was also wrong, it's expensive and takes about 2 weeks, they don't keep the chems on site
 
You were right, she was wrong. Wait till someone else is working there next time.
 
The only place I found that would develop XP2 was a news agents who had a minilab in the back. Proper proccessing shops wouldn't touch it because it isn't colour.
Gave up on it after the news agent retired.
 
When my local Tesco still processed film (sigh), there was no problem getting Ilford XP2 processed and written to CD for under £2. (sighs again!), Ah well, that'll be "progress" then. :bang:
 
The worst bit being the irony that these were the very places that the product was designed to be processed at in the first place!
 
Actually, the recommendation to take it to Boots would have been fine, at least at my local Boots - the guy who operates the minilab there was excellent when I took 3 rolls of C41 B&W in for a Dev & Print service a while ago. And just to be awkward - they were all different types - a roll of the Neopan 4000CN, some XP2+ and a roll of XP1 that had been in my old Yashica for absolutely AGES...

Boots Guy took a quick look at them said "No problem - all C41 B&W's - I've print presets on the machine I've set up for the Neopan and XP2, but I haven't seen a roll of the XP1 for years... I'll do it on the XP2 preset and see what comes out - might need to reprint when we see what comes out! - Come back in a Hour, I'm interested to see how it works myself"
 
Sorry Mark,

I meant if it had been a black and white process film the advice was wrong, of course with it being c41 boots will process it, but so could she so there would be no need to boots anyway
 
Yeah, I knew what you meant, about "real" B&W, but wanted to point out that my local boots were a really good place to take chromagenic B&W film :)
 
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