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Alan Brock wrote:
Phenomenal! What were your overall impressions of developing E-6? I've only done black and white developing so far, but am interested in doing my own color film.
Thanks!
Over all, it was much easier than I thought it would be. The whole constant temperature bath thing really was a stumbling block for me, until I did a lot of reading.
I didn't have a water bath, so all I did was use a plastic basin, filled it with 120 degree water, placed my E-6 chemical bottles in it, a gallon of water for the wash, and my daylight tank and waited until my first developer reached 106 degrees (arista chemicals need to be at 105). I kept adding a little water to the plastic basin to keep the water in it to as close to 105 degrees as possible.
I then started developing, using a bessler motor base and a jobo drum (you could also use a unicolor or bessler paper drum). As the first developer was doing its thing for 6.5 minutes, I kept track of the water bath in the plastic basin, taking a little water out and adding a little hot water to keep it at 105 degrees.
It sounds like it is tricky, but it was VERY easy to do and worked great the first time I tried it.
That being said, I would REALLY like to get a Jobo processor to make the whole affair plug and play.
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