Hello everyone
I would like to introduce myself as a new member, and would like to say how helpful this forum has been for me. I haven't written in before because there people here with SO much more background and experience that I don't know how much I could contribute; so I just go soaking up the knowledge as it comes along.
I have been taking pictures now for about 2 years, mostly slide film with a Mamiya 645 1000s and a big clunker of a RB-67 Pro-S. Now I had been using the Kodak 5L kit to process the film at 500ml of chemicals per run, and with the processing machine I put together, I went through about 60 rolls of e6 without a flaw.
Now that Kodak has discontinued the 5L kit,I purchased the 5gal sizes of the chems, with the exception of the bleach. For that I used a E-4 bleach which consisted of
Potassium Ferricyanide 120 gram
Potassium Bromide 24 gram
Disodium Phosphate 45 gram
Sodium Thiocyante 10 gram
Water to 1000ml
Now I split the chemicals as shown in picture 1 ; then I processed the films according to the times on picture 2(these are my standard times), but the slides came out horribly as you can see in pictures 3 and 4.
what bothers me is that the Provia has the green tinge, especially in the shadows, while the Asita has a bad magenta cast to it ,but they were run in the same batch, so I am at a loss besides blaming the bleach.
I did put 2 water rinses in before the bleach, so I didn't forget that
Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated, as I really want to go out and shoot more film,but I've got to be able to process it as well
Thanks
I would like to introduce myself as a new member, and would like to say how helpful this forum has been for me. I haven't written in before because there people here with SO much more background and experience that I don't know how much I could contribute; so I just go soaking up the knowledge as it comes along.
I have been taking pictures now for about 2 years, mostly slide film with a Mamiya 645 1000s and a big clunker of a RB-67 Pro-S. Now I had been using the Kodak 5L kit to process the film at 500ml of chemicals per run, and with the processing machine I put together, I went through about 60 rolls of e6 without a flaw.
Now that Kodak has discontinued the 5L kit,I purchased the 5gal sizes of the chems, with the exception of the bleach. For that I used a E-4 bleach which consisted of
Potassium Ferricyanide 120 gram
Potassium Bromide 24 gram
Disodium Phosphate 45 gram
Sodium Thiocyante 10 gram
Water to 1000ml
Now I split the chemicals as shown in picture 1 ; then I processed the films according to the times on picture 2(these are my standard times), but the slides came out horribly as you can see in pictures 3 and 4.
what bothers me is that the Provia has the green tinge, especially in the shadows, while the Asita has a bad magenta cast to it ,but they were run in the same batch, so I am at a loss besides blaming the bleach.
I did put 2 water rinses in before the bleach, so I didn't forget that
Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated, as I really want to go out and shoot more film,but I've got to be able to process it as well
Thanks
