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Colour E6 I should add. Non of your B@W nonsense
Bombard me with pitfalls please
Bombard me with pitfalls please
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Tearing the negative?
Good start. It's not even a negative
Need good filtration for the water or the film will be covered in crud, temerature is usually fairly critical. might be worth trying to get summat like this if you can get it cheap and are thinking of doing a few.
Time and expense could be a pitfall.
With colour printing you need to do three times the number of test shots I've been told, to get the RGB colour balance right.
Even if you achieve that, what have you gained?
B&W on the other hand can be manipulated much more and so you can produce the final image that you want which is why it is considered the more artistic medium over colour.
Hello. Not done E6 myself (surprisingly) but I have purchased a Jobo Processor for when the darkroom is ready.
Did a fair bit of C41 in the past (Tetenal Kit) with a kitchen sink and thermometer to keep the water temp steady - the process itself was easy but with mixed results. The chems said not to do a final rinse but the blix dried on all splotchy in places on some films so not ideal. But plenty of other people have had decent results so a lot of it could be down to the hard water up here. And mebbes E6 is more forgiving than C41...
Plus for long term archival stability I think the six bath E6 kits are more recommended than the three bath 'consumer' ones. But I've got canny high neg standards so a lot of people may not mind this...
For £30 odd quid I'd give it a go, apparently you can squeeze more than the recommended amount of films out of a batch with a bit of process tweaking. http://www.tetenal.co.uk/product_details.php?p_id=1944&vlang_id=4079
Will let you know how I get on when I finally get round to it.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/interzone-inc/3276752766/
One of the DIY C41 pics.
It's the CPE-2:
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Think it's designed for three bath kits but I'm sure I'l be able to work around it somehow....
Nice. My concern about those is getting the solutions in and out on time, as with doing it all by hand. Don't fancy self-agitation of the hand method either
Plus of course my brain drifting off on a tangent and screwing up the timings
That kit looks like the drum rotates, taking care of agitation and the timing is only really critical for the developer.