Room temperature C41

pentaxuser · Aug 11, 2017

Cholentpot said:
The rodinal? No clue. I stumbled on it seeing someone calling it buffering before a regular development. I think they used it to push some Portra 400. For me? Why not? It's old film from a camera I don't care about and snapshot subjects. If it works great, if it fails I turn it b&w in post. So far after the 6th frame scanned it looks almost T balanced and the next strip scanned will reflect this. I shoot for fun, good results are a plus but not necessary.

Thanks for the reply. I was specifically asking how development in Rodinal or maybe any B&W developer can increase the speed of a colour film by 1/2 to 3/4 of a stop. I cannot think how this is possible but was hoping that film/chemistry engineers might have some idea

This question is open to anyone with the necessary level of knowledge. Thanks

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Crutch · Aug 11, 2017

Cholentpot said:
The rodinal? No clue. I stumbled on it seeing someone calling it buffering before a regular development. I think they used it to push some Portra 400. For me? Why not? It's old film from a camera I don't care about and snapshot subjects. If it works great, if it fails I turn it b&w in post. So far after the 6th frame scanned it looks almost T balanced and the next strip scanned will reflect this. I shoot for fun, good results are a plus but not necessary.

Neat. Any idea if this would work with my unicolor chems? Have you tried bleach bypass this way?

btaylor · Aug 11, 2017

I'm kind of surprised no one has brought up the time factor. I process C41 at the correct temp, and at the very least because it is the shortest time! I never have as much time as I would like in the DR, so an extra 15 min of time in the dev is not what I want to be doing.

Room temperature C41

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