E6 pushing and pulling

Hi folks,

I'm now getting consistent results from the Kodak Pro E-6 chemicals using the recommended 6 minute first dev time but I'm not sure about times for pushing and pulling. Can someone give me some idea of good starting times for pushing and pulling by one stop?

I'm using a 3010 Jobo drum on a CPP-2

Thanks

Try 20% change in time, say ~7 minutes for about one-stop push, and maybe 5 min. 30 sec. for a half-stop pull. Results are generally better for pushing a bit than for pulling. It's best to experiment using bracketed exposures. I use a program back on my Minolta to make exposures in groups of three at -1, 0, +1 stop and then develop Fuji Provia for about 1/2 stop push, but I am not using Kodak chemistry (see the alternative E-6 thread for more information).

First Developer is a black and white developer... in my "E6" process I'm using Xtol... takes about 40 minute dev time at 1+1/38c, regarding the strength differences, treat it like a B&W dev as that is what its doing.. making B&W negs (3 of them) on your film.

I'm guessing +20 seconds ought to do it?

You can gauge it if youre willing to test.. exposing normally.. and also 1 stop over and one stop under and developing normally, then take the same pic on another roll, and expose it normally and underexpose 1 stop, and underexpose 2 stops (to help see the diff).. or perhaps you can use the same roll and cut it in half for testing purposes (fill the roll up on first half with normal testing pics and the other half with the push testing pics ), develop one half longer than the other.. and them compare them at opposite ends.. away from the cut.

Gauge how closely the 0 normal vs -1 push is, -1 vs -2 and +1 vs 0 etc

That's how I would do it to establish a time.