Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/07/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:56 PM 7/6/04 -0500, Eric wrote: >I'm trying to decide if I want to home process some C41 or not. First time >I've shot color in a few years. I've been doing all my own B&W. Bought 4 >rolls of Fuji NPH to try out. > >There is no local lab that does dip & dunk. It's either the corner >drugstore, or I mail them to a pro lab. Or I get a "room temperature" kit >and do them myself in my manual tank. > >Any recommendations one way or the other? If I do it myself, what kit >should I get? Thanks! ============================== C-41 is rather easy to do at home and I have done a LOT of it over the past ten or fifteen years. Developing the film is not the problem but PRINTING it can be a nightmare when you just cannot get the right filter combination to work -- often, when printing color negative materials, you have to review them in natural sunlight or the equivalent, and this can be difficult to do at four in the AM. Temperature control is a minor concern but that can be handled by the possession of both a decent thermometer and a small sink, though you might have to adjust for a color-balance shift when printing the negative. But, all in all, developing C-41 and printing RA4 (or even EP2) is a simple expansion of doing monochrome darkroom work. Ilfochrome work is much simpler and is almost bulletproof but this, of course, only applies to slides. Marc msmall@infionline.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!