printing ecn-2 developed film on a color enlarger

I've read many threads regarding eastman 5219 film and how to develop it ( and not to use c-41). making the ecn-2 developer from scratch using cd-3 from artcraft and the recipe listed in in the recipe section seems easy enough. I would use bleach and fixer from my flexicolor stash. removing remjet seems like a trial and error process but should be easy once it gets figured out. but I could only find a few mentions of printing on a color enlarger. PE says that the gamma of ecn-2 films are .5 and reg c-41 are .6 to.65 so clearly I should expect lower contrast. any ideas on how to print them to get a normal look. Yes I could scan but im interested in printing em via RA4.

I have access to up to 7 cans of 35mm 5219 vision 3 400 foot sealed rolls from a movie shoot at a about $20 per can plus lots of short ends for free if i buy at least 1 can. the cost would allow me to play see if it works and if not pass along possibly to someone else at a good price.

thoughts?

The most obvious solution would be push processing the film, i.e. raise its contrast and possibly gain a tiny amount of speed in the process. If you already have the processed negatives, there are ways to increase the contrast of RA4: either use a higher contrast paper, or go the color develop, fix, rehal bleach, color develop, BLIX route (with wash after each step).

The colour paper you have these days is pretty high contrast isn't it? So that may not necessarily be a disadvantage.

I've had limited experience printing motion picture color negative stock but I have printed Kodak's motion picture film with success on Kodak Supra Endura. I found the contrast to be nice, in fact, and didn't find it markedly lower than Kodak's still films. Kodak's current paper has a bit more contrast than Supra, so you should be fine. I would definitely try it.

Tim

In my experience, the Vision3 films seem to have somewhat better contrast than predecessor stocks. I bring the contrast of the paper up a bit by adding hydrogen peroxide to the RA4 developer. You can experiment a bit here (try 5ml/L or 10ml/L) to get a feel for how it affects development contrast.

Double development affects contrast but it is a pain. In my experiments with this it also enhances grain.

I also think push processing may be worthwhile. I haven't done that yet but think I'll shoot a test roll and push one stop or so.