Colour Film to B&W

[YarisSi]

What would happen if I try to develop colour film into black and white photos.

Also what make film is best (and cheap) to use or does it not really matter. For B&W and Colour?
Thanks
Si

[JonRB]

Bearing in mind that it it is about 16 years since I mucked around with B&W and chemicals, I used to find that it was possible but you always got a fairly grainy photo with not enough contrast.

Of course, this could have been down to the films available 16 years ago and things might have improved now.

[simpo two]

YarisSi said:

Also what make film is best (and cheap) to use or does it not really matter. For B&W and Colour? Thanks Si

Best and cheap? It doesn't work like that. Best costs more than cheap! I used Fuji Superia for colour prints and liked it, but some people (hi PB!) find it too saturated.

[YarisSi]

Sorry.
I didn't really mean cheap but being a student there is a balance between best film and how much able/willing to pay.

[simpo two]

YarisSi said:

I didn't really mean cheap but being a student there is a balance between best film and how much able/willing to pay.

Okey doke. All I know is that Fuji (with decent processing) gave me much better results than the free films you get with d&p packages.
I got mine from www.mailshotsuk.co.uk/acatalog/index.html
If you spend a lot on film and processing, have you calculated a payback time if you went digital?

[YarisSi]

When used digital before didn't really like delay and I have a good SLR already which is really nice and would want a SLR digital which are expensive but will admit will be better when come down in price - One i've played with was quite few thousand and just amazing what could be done with it.

>> Edited by YarisSi on Tuesday 9th November 17:51