E-6/CS-6 Give me some pointers.

[kb244]

What I have.....

Stainless steel tank, reel, etc stuff to do black and white
Adjustible Reel/Tank
Unicolor/Uniroller Drum (can hold upto 7 35mm reels)

The chemicals I purchased was a 1Litre kit of Beseler CS-6 Processing Kit.

I want to use the drum, however never used the uni-roller before, and I'm at a lost as to finding instructions online as to how much volume of chemicals I need exactly for each 120 roll. (its one of them drums where you push down the end to shorten the ammount of space inside). Also was told that if I did E-6 in a drum, I should put all the chemicals into one of my paper processing trays with the water running into the tray at 105F and wait til the first developer hits that 105F critical temp, so that when I put it in, it comes out close to around 98/95F so that the 'average' is 100F.

Also I noticed in the instructions of the Beseler in terms of developing times, there isnt really a distinguishment in times for E-6, for example if I am reading it correctly, I could technically put a roll of velvia 50 in there, and Provia 400F at the same time, develop them both at the same length of time, and they would both come out fine, even tho one is 400 and the other is 50, as opposed to where B&W I'd rararely be able to mix-and-match B&W emulsions to process at the same time length with the same developer.

Would appreciate some directions, I'm familiar with B&W development if that helps, and typically in a steel tank, what I'm unfamiliar with is E-6, and using a drum/rotorary processor.

Let me know if you need more information from me.

 

[Markok765]

It it because that color films are mostly macine processed and the film makers have to make them able to dev all at the same time. its 3 min for first dev in e6

 

[kb244]

Ok whats going on here.

Now the first roll was Provia 100F, and basically when the drum leaked, and such I moved it over to a steel tank and tried to develop it in that way.

Its the Beseler CS-6 Processing kit. I followed the step to the dot.

6 Minutes of First Dev @ 100F
Wash @ 100F at 2 minutes changing out the water every 30 sec
4 mins at Color Dev @ 100F
Wash @ 100F at 1 min, changing out the water twice
Bleach-Fix @ 100F at 6 minutes
Wash @ 100F at 3 minutes , changing out every 30 seconds
Stabalizer @ 77-80F for 30 seconds

Dried

The Provia 100F came out kinda like above, then figured I'd try to do Velvia 50 and see, but I get the exact same thing, even being more careful about temperature and agitation and wash.

Whats going on? What am I doing wrong, is the kit I got dead?