Recently shot a bunch of portra (400) and developed it in the argentix c41 kit (similar to unicolor I think.) First time doing c41.
Now, I don't know if the bleach is bad, but the negatives are coming out too dark or too dense. They were developed for the proper time and proper temp. I overexposed them intentionally one, two or three stops to get more saturated colours, but not six+ stops which I have seen examples of online come out perfectly in scans.
Well, after reblixing for a half hour there isn't much difference. Very difficult to get a scan out of them. I'm wondering if the blix is exhausted, despite being brand new batch of chemicals, or if there is some other problem. The negatives I thought were slightly underexposed came out damn near perfect. I metered everything before shooting.
Can I use regular bleach. If so for how long?
Now, I don't know if the bleach is bad, but the negatives are coming out too dark or too dense. They were developed for the proper time and proper temp. I overexposed them intentionally one, two or three stops to get more saturated colours, but not six+ stops which I have seen examples of online come out perfectly in scans.
Well, after reblixing for a half hour there isn't much difference. Very difficult to get a scan out of them. I'm wondering if the blix is exhausted, despite being brand new batch of chemicals, or if there is some other problem. The negatives I thought were slightly underexposed came out damn near perfect. I metered everything before shooting.
Can I use regular bleach. If so for how long?