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Process ECN-2 for Pictorial Use

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Hey PE, you have been most informative on this thread.

You said that some processing plants might splice in smaller rolls into larger motion picture film runs. Do you know of any specific plants in the US that would do that?
 
No. Sorry. That factoid was passed on by a friend, but he gave me no names. And, that was a few years back. I have lost contact with him.

PE
 
I apologize for the late reply. I don't get notifications from this site.

I believe it was my Kodak Pakon.

-13 in contrast on initial capture. Then I re-up the contrast/saturation a bit in Lightroom.

I also have a Fuji Frontier SP500 which also has good results.

 
Resuscitating this old thread after acquiring 4,000 ft of Agfa XT100. It was $20. Processed in C41 it does produce what I think is a printable image, so film looks to be fresh enough.

I see it's still possible to buy CD3 fresh from Art Craft in 100g powder. Anyone know mixing instructions? Are the remainder of the steps and chemicals the same as C41?

This negative has a red base, unlike the orange base familiar to me having shot Cinestill and still films. My Epson 4990 scanner didn't seem to know how to correct for it, but I didn't try very hard. In RA4 darkroom, anyone tried to correct for the red base this simply with enlarger settings?
 
Interesting they note that steps following stop bath can be done in room light. C41 process according to Z131 states lights can go on after bleach step.
 
peoplemerge said:
Interesting they note that steps following stop bath can be done in room light. C41 process according to Z131 states lights can go on after bleach step.
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I had always wondered about that too.
 
peoplemerge said:
Interesting they note that steps following stop bath can be done in room light. C41 process according to Z131 states lights can go on after bleach step.
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Because C41 doesn't have a stop bath and bleach functions as a stop bath too?
 
Anon Ymous said:
Because C41 doesn't have a stop bath and bleach functions as a stop bath too?
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Pretty much correct, but in addition, the ECN stop is way more acid than your normal stop being Sulfuric Acid. This really removes the chemistry fast and drops the pH.

PE
 

The company was Seattle Film Works. They sent you a free roll of ECN film and you returned the exposed film to them. You paid them for color slides and prints. Along with the returned color slides, color prints and negatives they sent a new roll of film.

I have made prints from ECN negatives and as PE said the contrast is a bit less but not unpleasantly so.
 
analoguey said:
Is there an alternative to ferri-cyanide? Or a ready made bleach/blix chemical that one can obtain?

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Why are you worried about ferricyanide? It is not poisonous except in the case of contact with strong acids.
 
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I use the following method for the remjet coating. Eliminate the prebath to remove it, it is not needed. After development and stop bath I take the film off the reel and hang it up. Then with a clean sponge GENTLY remove the remjet. Make sure that none of the carbon particles get on the emulsion side. A final spray of water and then back on the reel for the rest of the processing.
 
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