Contact printing onto Kodak 2383

[Mogsby]

I was gifted some Kodak 2383 positive film along with ecp2 developer, I have ecn2 Also that I use for mpf processing. I tried doing some contact prints under the enlarger. I started with contact printing fuji reala 500D and ecp2 Dev, the results were not great. I spent a couple of nights printing from the Fuji and tried all possible colour developers. The colours are weak and way off. I had a read about contact printing mpf I see they use Rgb filters.
Not wanting to give up I tried contact printing from vision 500T onto the 2383. I did a run in ecn2 and a run in ecp2, amazing I got a half decent result. I notice the ecp2 Dev leaves a green cast on the film, as seen on the borders!. Leaves me with a lot of questions??!. See photos. BTW, exposure times are long, 20s plus.

 

[Mogsby]

here are a couple of scans, 1st, the fuji film is the same weak result in ecp2 and ecn2. 2nd, The kodak film is much better in both baths. My lidl scanner is crap and does not really show the difference the eye can readily see from a mile off, also has no settings for MPF. 3rd scan the colour is closer from the V3 500T.

 

[HaiZ]

Hi Mogsby, I'm digging into the possibility of print on 2383 from vision3 500T, the last result"20170122023041_03.jpg" seems promising, may I ask what's the color filter combination of your enlarger color head? the last one is developed in ecp-2d right?