#Unicolor c 41 kit plus#
I ended up needing six 1L glass bottles plus 1 500mL glass bottle to store my C-41 chemistry in. To start with, I knew I’d need a lot more bottles than what I had. Please read all safety and MSDS specification sheets for any chemicals that you purchase for this and other chemical processes that you may decide to undertake. This post is about conducting a chemical process which could cause harm to you and others if not conducted appropriately.
This post is about the how and some examples of my results of actually doing this.ĭISCLAIMER: I cannot be held responsible for anything that you do as a result of following any information in or linked from this post.
#Unicolor c 41 kit how to#
So after sitting on this nagging bit of information that somehow separate bleach and fix is better than blix for months, I finally figured out how to move from using Blix to a separate bleach/fix combination. (There are rumors that the Rollei separate bleach/fix kit can be purchased in Europe. In fact, I can’t find a single site selling a kit with separate bleach and fix in the United States. So what’s the dilemma? The dilemma is that most C-41 kits targeted to the home developer come with Blix. There are many, many more places where PE and others tout the benefits of a separate bleach/fix over blix. It is what I have been saying all along!” (Comment #352 at ) I even sense a larger tonal range, and deeper blacks. 35mm almost seemed unusable before, but the results I just got here have true life. The biggest difference is the reduction in grain and increase in sharpness. After using blix for the last two years, I’m dumbfounded. “I used up developer from a tetenal kit I had on the go, so the biggest difference was using separate bleach and fix. The following discussion that another forum member started was very interesting to me:
” However, I can say that use of a blix instead of a real bleach then fix cycle is the root of many problems.” (Comment #356 at ) He has made a lot of statements on this subject on this site, including such gems as this: This particular employee goes by the moniker “PE” on the popular site APUG (Analog Photography Users’ Group), which has recently been acquired by Photorio. If you have ever felt that way, then you’ll know how I felt when I first came across comparison statements made by a former Kodak-Eastman employee on the difference in C-41 with blix versus separate bleach/fix. Have you ever read something before and been left with a nagging feeling that what you read discounted what you knew and made you feel like you weren’t doing as good as you could? And then did you spend months trying to rationalize that what you were doing was just fine and didn’t need to be improved?
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