Kodak Catalog #s and Y surface paper

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After some investigation it's looking like the most economical and fastest way for me to get my feet wet in colour printing is with developing my own C-41 and RA-4. I can order this stuff through my employer but I need to provide them with catalog/product #s. Kodak's website is pretty cryptic about this saying only, "Sizes and catalog numbers may differ from country to country. See your supplier of KODAK PROFESSIONAL Products." They give no instructions anywhere on the website as to how to find the Canadian distributor (if any, Kodak may do it themselves) of EK products nor can I seem to find a catalog for anything other than Cine products. I could call them, but seeing as it's 12:20am PST I figured I'd ask here first.

After reading the descriptions for Supra Endura, Endura Metallic, Ultra Endura, and Ultra Endura HD it seems like the paper I'm most interested in is Supra Endura. They say that it is available in 4 surfaces: E, F, and N with a Y Silk surface being available in some markets. I remember hearing that EK discontinued one of their surfaces a while ago and I'm not sure how often they update their website. The Y surface sounds really unique, is it one of the ones still available?

On a slightly unrelated note, since my spot meter crapped out on me and I need a replacement getting a colour head enlarger is out of the question for the time being. Freestyle sells 6"x6" colour filter sheets that seem to be for using B&W enlargers to print colour; are the Philips enlarger bulbs designed to output light compatible with this, and if not is it a simple matter of adjusting filtration to compensate for the colour of light? I can open my enlarger head and check out the bulb name if necessary.

Thanks for the help!

 

[Mike Wilde]

I have printed with acetate filters in a beseler 23 with a condenser head for the first 6 or more years of printing colour (it was ep/2, so that dates me) It is workable. I would keep an eye on freecycle, craigslist, etc. Dichroics do make the world easier, and it is possible to spend as much on the actate filters as a whole enlarger these days. I used to use a calculator when I used acetates, because once you get the baselilne exposure right, and are then fine tuning colours, each filter you swap can have a different filter factor, and they are additive.

I use supra endura in N and F. I prefer the non glossy ( N I think ). Don't buy too much unless you have lots of freezer space. The product ages to loose red sensitivity, so with time you need to add more and more yellow and magenta to combat this until the image becomes very dim to dodge under, etc.