printing ecn-2 developed film on a color enlarger

[destroya]

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?

 

[Rudeofus]

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).

 

[Athiril]

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

 

[tim elder]

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

 

[newcan1]

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.

 

[newcan1]

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.