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Thanks! I was going to do that anyway. I suspect the reason Bellini doesn't nail down the 1st dev times is because a prewash is important to the consistency of the process. And you are correct about all film brands using the same times. The whole point of E6 (or C41) is to create a standard...

I just received the Bellini E6 kit and it's pretty disappointing right out of the box. The instructions are a single sheet of paper, most of which is in Italian. Fortunately, my darkroom skills are pretty good from running hundreds of rolls thru Tetenal kits (🙏🙏🙏Please come back!!). There...

Pretty much everything Mr. PE said about three bath E6 kits was demonstrably wrong. By his own admission he had never tried the process or even examined the results. His "experience" at Kodak dated from the 1960's when the E4 process was a new. He originally claimed that combining the...

It's Provia! It looks like Provia.

Forgot this.

I ran the second roll at 11min 30sec in the first dev. This is 25% longer than the minimum time Cinestill recommends. Based on other chemistry this should provide 1 stop of further development. The film turned out just as expected; the trannies are spot on. The dymanic range is very...

It's Provia. Provia can always benefit from a warming filter. The additional saturation from the underexposure could explain explain the look of these. We'll what happens with the next roll.

I just finished my first roll with the Cinestill e6 Dynamic chemistry. The trannies are definitely dark by about one stop. They are fine for scanning and shadow detail is really well preserved. This was Provia that expired in 2019, but has been kept frozen. The first developer time was 9 min...

Will you take a $1000 (+shipping)?

I similar smudge showed up in the first frame of the next roll. That eliminates any possibility of a development issue as I mixed a brand new batch of chemicals. I'm convinced these are flies (the place was filled with flies), motion blurred at 1/125s. The chances of seven consecutive frames...

Shot with a Mamiya 645 and the 80mm lens, the last six shots on the roll all had a sort of swirly splotch in the sky. The first nine frames were fine. Oddly enough, the splotches are about the same size and shape, and in approximately the same location on each of the frames. There are no...

I had the exact same experience with five rolls of expired VS, but from a reputable vendor. Just like yours, there was nothing on the film, not even the rebate. At the time I assumed it was X ray fogging. But it is certainly possible that the dye couplers deteriorated and didn't form an image...

Here's what it looks like. A heck of a lot better than a big, grody spot in the center of the view. The blending at the bottom isn't perfect but I think that could be remedied by rotating 180 degrees between coats. The thin, horizontal line thru the middle is a mystery. I don't think it was...

Thanks! I figured it was something like that, but didn't want to pry on anything too hard. Fortunately, I found an exploded diagram that showed the badge was in two pieces. The frame/bezel is a casting that is held with screws. The nameplate itself is a stamping that is glued into the frame...

I have several Mamiya 645 prisms with desilvering issues. I'm starting out trying to fix the unmetered one. I got the rear screws and release knob removed and the back end is free. But there something still holding the cover in the front. The metered prisms have screws in front, but this has...