The instructions give the standard steps…
In that case, you need to add the first two steps. As a chemistry for the first, you could try two tablespoons of baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) - probably not as effective as Kodak recommends, but it will do the trick.
I'm doing pre-soak all the time for C41 film in Bellini kit. The reason is that I want to make sure the tank and film are around 100F when I pour in the color developers so the temperature and time will be correct.
In conclusion, I ignored Bellini's instruction of "no pre-soak" with no ill effect for over one year now.
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I'm doing pre-soak all the time for C41 film in Bellini kit. The reason is that I want to make sure the tank and film are around 100F when I pour in the color developers so the temperature and time will be correct.
In conclusion, I ignored Bellini's instruction of "no pre-soak" with no ill effect for over one year now.
He added 45secs to the dev.
That's a massive increase that constitutes about a 1.5 stop push it so. As virtually always, it'll produce an I age and it'll scan OK, but the color balance will shift, crossover increases and so does granularity. There's no good reason to do this the way I see it.
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