Adding Anti-Halation Dye to Film

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I was intersted if anybody hear knew the type of dye is suitable for anti-halation on the back of film to be processed c-41 or black and white? I am going to be doing some testing applying dye to the back of film without anti-halation but would like it to be solluable in the first step.

Any knowledge or ideas would be appreciated. Thanks!
 

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Hello ,

May be You can look at kodak aero films patents. I opened your thread after my visit to Kodak site , there are numerous Aero Films with gel anti halation coating.

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How do you propose to do this?
 
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PE,

He asks for c41 and bw. I think he wants to fantasize to improve ordinary film.

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But yes ideally I would like to apply it to either c-41, panchromatic black and white film or home made glass plates. The key is using a dye that would not be harful to the c-41 process. The mothod of application would obviously need to be worked out too of corse.
 

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Your best bet would be inactivated carbon black in gelatin coated as desired and then removed before processing. This is known as Rem Jet or Removable Jet Black!

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Or you can buy short cut Kodak 500 T movie Film with ram jet ready , shoot the film , remove the ramjet with soaped water and than C41 process. Search short cut in APUG.
 

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500T is rad and looks great when hand processed or ECN-2 machine rem-jet (removed by water jet) run. I am trying to do something different. I have an idea of what possible dyes I will need to use but just wanted to get some input on here. But I can figure it out just fine if the only suggestion is not to try to add my own anti-halation onto my film and homemade plates.
 

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Use quality fresh film , good lens , good exposure control and good developer with control and you will gain more than your ram jet.
 
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Yes I know what it takes to make a good photograph. I also like to try new even crazy approaches to creating images. Sometimes that is expired type 55 or 669 or sometimes making something completely myself like a wet plate or using a hacke brownie lens on sheet film. It's all for the love of photography and creating images.
 
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