So I decided to give my own try at Vision film. As a test I ordered a couple rolls of 50D ( I would prefer 250D for my uses but 50D was what I could get at the moment ). My first test was to remove the remjet. For this I clipped the leader off and recut the film so I could load it later.
I first tried the standard baking soda and water - this worked OK but left patches that needed to be rubbed off.
I thought about this a bit and decided to try good old driveway cleaner/degreaser. My only rational was something alkaline and I have used this on photo resist when I used to make my own PC boards.
I mixed 10ml of super clean in 500ml of water. This completely cleared the remjet without having to rub any residue off. I had no idea what it might do to the emulsion.
I put a roll through my camera loaded the film into my Jobo 1510 tank. I filled it with 250ml of the solution, let it soak for a minute, shook it hard for a minute, let it rotate for a minute and drained it. At this point I left it rotating on the processor and did two more fills ( @125ml ) for a minute each. This was followed by 4 water fills and dumps about a minute each. water was pretty clear after the second dump. I then processed normally per C41 process.
I looked at the film before dumping it in the stabilizer and saw no signs of remjet. After stabilizing, hung to dry.
Attached are some samples of the results, I am pleased, pleased enough I ordered a 400ft roll of 250D from Kodak ( along with 400ft of Ektachrome 100D ), both in stock.
For me, the remjet did not prove to be much of a problem. The 10ml in 500ml seemed pretty strong, I might reduce this to 5 in 500 and play with how much time film spends in it.

I first tried the standard baking soda and water - this worked OK but left patches that needed to be rubbed off.
I thought about this a bit and decided to try good old driveway cleaner/degreaser. My only rational was something alkaline and I have used this on photo resist when I used to make my own PC boards.
I mixed 10ml of super clean in 500ml of water. This completely cleared the remjet without having to rub any residue off. I had no idea what it might do to the emulsion.
I put a roll through my camera loaded the film into my Jobo 1510 tank. I filled it with 250ml of the solution, let it soak for a minute, shook it hard for a minute, let it rotate for a minute and drained it. At this point I left it rotating on the processor and did two more fills ( @125ml ) for a minute each. This was followed by 4 water fills and dumps about a minute each. water was pretty clear after the second dump. I then processed normally per C41 process.
I looked at the film before dumping it in the stabilizer and saw no signs of remjet. After stabilizing, hung to dry.
Attached are some samples of the results, I am pleased, pleased enough I ordered a 400ft roll of 250D from Kodak ( along with 400ft of Ektachrome 100D ), both in stock.
For me, the remjet did not prove to be much of a problem. The 10ml in 500ml seemed pretty strong, I might reduce this to 5 in 500 and play with how much time film spends in it.



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