{"id":1681,"date":"2014-08-20T01:38:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T01:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2017-03-11T12:39:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T12:39:02","slug":"bw400cn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/bw400cn\/","title":{"rendered":"Kodak BW400CN film discontinued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kodak seems to be discontinuing its last <span class=\"st\">chromogenic (C-41)<\/span> black and white film, BW400CN.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/bw400cn\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3392\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODdhAQABAPAAAP\/\/\/wAAACwAAAAAAQABAEACAkQBADs=\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/400bw-720x579.jpg\" alt=\"Lodak BW400CN film carton\" width=\"720\" height=\"579\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/400bw-720x579.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/400bw-768x617.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/400bw-730x587.jpg 730w, https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/400bw.jpg 1000w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 500px\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/400bw-720x579.jpg\" alt=\"Lodak BW400CN film carton\" width=\"720\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/400bw-720x579.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/400bw-768x617.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/400bw-730x587.jpg 730w, https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/400bw.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 500px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Along with Ilford XP-2 (and a Fujifilm C-41 black and white film, assuming they still make it),\u00a0<span class=\"st\"><span class=\"st\">C-41<\/span> black and white negative films<\/span> are aimed at using normal colour processing, rather than traditional black and white film processes. I never used BW400CN, but I do sometimes use Ilford&#8217;s XP2. Very nice tones and scans well, but I seem to be able to scratch it very easily (although the may be the photo lab machinery).<\/p>\n<p>This discontinuation is not especially surprising, as I guess that black and white film use will gradually become more and more focussed on artists and hobbyists developing at home, or via the ocassional pro lab, using traditional black and white processes. It&#8217;s always a shame when another film bites the dust. But, I wouldn&#8217;t be too suprised if this is part of a trend where the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/goodbye-colour-film-its-been-real-well-its-been-real\/\">end of C-41 film in general<\/a> occurs sooner, rather than later.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kodak&#8217;s highest speed black and white film, to be discontinued<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mono","category-tech","category-film-photography","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3394,"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions\/3394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}