5x4 colour film

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5x4 colour film

Post by Rob G » Thu Sep 16, 2010 2:37 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Hi,
I wanted to ask for advice, I have had to close my darkroom down as the room is now required for other use due to family circumstances. I have only ever used monochrome film in all my cameras, which I have processed myself, as i have been disposing of my equipment mainly on ebay the thought occurred that maybe I could keep one of my large format cameras and use colour film which I could get processed at a photo lab. The problem is after putting in many searches on the internet I cannot find a supplier of 5 x 4 colour film only out of date film on ebay, Im sure not everyone on this forum uses only monochrome film and therefore colour film must still be available so could some kind person point me in the direction of a supplier.
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Re: 5x4 colour film

Post by acs » Thu Sep 16, 2010 3:30 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

http://robertwhite.co.uk/product.asp?P_ ... &PT_ID=310

7dayshop.co.uk often have it as well
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Re: 5x4 colour film

Post by Ed Moss » Thu Sep 16, 2010 3:52 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

In the West Mids ag-photographic as well.

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Re: 5x4 colour film

Post by dave_whatever » Thu Sep 16, 2010 5:19 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Also Fujilab for the green boxes. Have in the past had out of date stuff really cheap.

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Re: 5x4 colour film

Post by timparkin » Thu Sep 16, 2010 5:38 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Waiting for the developing bill - 2 hours (and it's so small now!)

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Re: 5x4 colour film

Post by Rob G » Sat Sep 18, 2010 1:04 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Thank you all for taking the time to offer me advice on this matter, you have all been very kind and helpful.
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Re: 5x4 colour film

Post by Marizu » Sat Sep 18, 2010 5:57 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

You're still going to need to change the film in a changing bag so you could use it to load up a daylight tank and keep working in B&W. B&W chemistry is pretty cheap so you could develop by hand inversion in a Jobo tank only. You wouldn't need a processor.
If you worked in colour, I'm guessing that you're planning to scan the colour film so you could just do that with B&W, too. Just an extra option to consider.

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Re: 5x4 colour film

Post by Rob G » Sun Sep 19, 2010 12:17 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Hi Marizu,
Thank you for that advice it is genius , I must be going senile the thought had not entered my head. I have a changing bag, but would you believe I have just sold both of my LF developing tanks, I had not used them for ages as I tried dish deving and fount it gave better results. I will have to buy another tank. Thank you so much for giving me this ray of hope.
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Re: 5x4 colour film

Post by Joanna Carter » Wed Sep 29, 2010 1:31 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Of course, you could always use B&W film for colour work, using the "trichromie" process. I have a couple of examples on my site http://grandes-images.com/fr/Articles_T ... iques.html and all you need is three filters: red, green and blue. There is a thread on these forums on the practice viewtopic.php?f=6&t=977&start=0&hilit=trichromie
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