![]() If you have a Paterson tank what you need extra that you may not already have are three one litre bottles for the re-usable chemicals, a small washing up bowl to use as a water bath to keep your chemicals in, a fish tank heater that goes above 30c, and a Tetenal C41 kit, that's all. But even so if you got the temperature out a little bit your film will not self destruct, I have seen some real howlers of mistakes and there is still a perfectly printable/scan-able negative at the end of it. True enough if you have a pile of film to process you would want to go to a lab, but do you have a pile of film? Who has a pile of film? Process as you shoot the film, don't let it become a pile.įilm can be processed at 30c (not much warmer than for B&W) which doesn't affect the results at all and helps with consistency. You don't need a Jobo tank, and ordinary Paterson tank will do fine. Doing 15-20 rolls will likely take you at least half a day for the processing alone.Ĭlick to expand.I think you have been talked out of doing your own C41 by misinformation.ġ litre Tetenal C41 kits will do about 15-20 films and the kit costs about £18 ($30?) With a Jobo, another consideration is that you will not likely be able to do more than 5 rolls an hour. Iceland is a bit of a special case since it is a very low volume/high materials cost market, but if you can find someone who will properly develop your film for less than 10 dollars a roll, I would still think that was a very good deal. Given 8 dollars a roll from a real lab, I think it is quite a reasonable expense.įor what it's worth, I no longer develop color film for people as I found that the costs and effort of manual processing were so high and the possible fees I could charge were so low, that I never once made money doing it. ![]() While C41 is not all that tricky, the chemicals are less stable and more expensive than their black and white counterparts, and the process is more finicky since it has to be run at a high temperature and with short developing times (sometimes it can be tricky to get very even development for sheet film or 120 when using rotary tubes and short development times). While I think home black and white processing is an economical and reasonable choice, home c41 processing is more for people who really enjoy the technical side of photography and find the act of processing itself fun. Tetenal makes some C41 and E6 kits in smaller quantities, so if you do decide to do it, you should look into that route. I would agree with Mike that, while possible, it is probably not worth the effort. I run a small custom lab in Iceland, and I have had experience processing C41 and E6 in a Jobo CPP2. I don't know what your lab charges but I would think really hard before going out a buying a processor. I don't know about Jobos but I have used photo therms for processing E6 and The processor did a rotten job of drying the film, we always had to soak the film in photo flo after processing and hang it to dry. so even if the processing time is only about 15 minutes the whole process is not all that quick.Ĥ. It can be rather time consuming considering that you must load each roll of film onto a spindle in the dark without kinking it. So you will need to use the entire gallon as saving it for the next session is not feasible.ģ. after you mix the chemistry there is no way It will last the three months between uses. ![]() if you look at the cost of kits And the amount of film they can process I think you will find the chemistry costs alone will be about $3.00 per roll.Ģ. You will be purchasing c41 chemistry in 1 gallon kits. Having owned a photo lab for 15 years I would advise against doing your own c41 processing for several reasons.ġ. ![]()
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