ECN2 process with jobo

[koraks]

The blue/yellow thing is interesting; I think it may have something to do with how human color vision works and variations between individuals in this regard. For instance, when printing color, I notice that I am quite sensitive to yellow/blue balance issues, while I find green/magenta issues more difficult to spot. Moreover, yellow/blue gives such a strong emotional response, with blues being experienced as cool (the blues, indeed!) while yellows are warm and friendly. The bias towards the latter seems to make sense.

 

[Radost]

For me looking realistically is what makes sense. Daylight is blue 5600K and night is yellow 3200 3600K

 

[lamerko]

Natural (daylight) light is highly variable - it depends on many circumstances. If you don't shoot slides - it doesn't really matter. I don't know what your criteria are for "realistic colors", but in real life the warmth or coolness of colors can vary by a few minutes. But still - the golden hours provide a fabulous color. Maybe not realistic, but real.

 

[Radost]

Sure:

• Optional tempering/pre-rinse bath to bring tank up to temperature. 2 minutes with 41C tap water.
• Development in home-made ECN2 developer; 3:45 to 4:00 at 41C. I develop longer to get the right contrast for optical RA4 printing.
• Acetic acid (ca. 0.5%) stop bath.
• C41 bleach; Fuji rapid access; 3-4 minutes. Re-used and replenished according to manufacturer's specifications.
• C41 fix; Fuji rapid access, 3-4 minutes. Used one shot.

With remjet-backed film, I will then take a tray of lukewarm water with some handsoap or sodium carbonate dissolved in it. Put the reel with the film still on in the water and start unspooling it while brushing off the remjet with a soft brush. Bits of remjet that stick to the emulsion side I rub off with my wet fingers. Vision3 film takes a lot of rubbing without scratching; the emulsion is very tough.

Then wash under a running tap, both sides. Hang up, wipe off the shiny side with a paper towel and let dry. I generally don't use a final bath/conditioner/stabilizer with my Vision3 film because the archival stability doesn't concern me much for my snapshots. For optimal permanence, it doesn't hurt to do a final bath of demineralized water with a few drops of formalin added to it. Soak for a minute and hang up to dry.

Do you use the stop bath one shot?

 

[koraks]

Yes. Since it's so cheap I don't bother keeping bottles of used stop bath around. They take up space.