jakkur
Hello,
Can you get a black-and-white photo printed in black and white (not monochrome blue, etc.) on neutral colour paper at a photo lab? If so, how does it work?
Many thanks in advance
Jana
cfb_de
It’s possible, but it requires a great deal of effort in the lab. However, it’s not exactly straightforward when it comes to filtering.
Large-scale labs might not be able to manage it at all, and mini-labs will only succeed after a great deal of fine-tuning. In our own lab… see above.
Best regards,
Franz
Wolfgg
If you are referring to shooting a black-and-white subject on colour negative film: ‘Very precise filtering’ means experimenting until you get it right. The human eye is extremely sensitive when something is supposed to be neutral grey; it picks up on every tiny filtering error.
If a black-and-white negative film is to be enlarged onto colour paper:
In the past, a so-called mask replacement filter was placed in the film stage or filter drawer. If you didn’t have one, you simply used a piece of unexposed but developed colour negative film (‘blank image’). Nowadays, however, it’s also possible to do this using just the colour head; you simply need to adjust the filter to compensate for the mask that’s missing with black-and-white film. Here, too, the filtering must be very precise.
Regards, Wolfgang
