I’m still looking for a dependable lab to do my ECN developing.  This film is re-spooled Kodak movie film.  The lure of this film is that it’s high quality at a much lower price than a top notch still photo color film like Portra 400.  The one draw back is that movie film has a black backing called remote and is for use in fast moving film projectors.  During the developing process it has to be removed.  In theory it is not technically that complicated - I tried it once and it was a mess.  I started to look for labs that could do this for me.  The other issue is that ECN has its own developing chemicals but can be “cross-processed” in C41.  From my viewing various Youtube channels there doesn’t appear to be a big problem developing in C41.

My first lab was a small one man operation out of Utah, TreeHouse Labs -  he was great.  His site is gone and he said he was doing home remodeling so that is no longer an option.  Next I tried Bluemooncamera.com in Portland.  They were not cheap and had over a 3 week turnaround time - not acceptable. Finally I’ve given up on Bellows Labs in Chicago - their turnaround was great but they don’t pay for shipping into them and they use an expensive FedEx to ship back the negatives.  On top of that they didn’t even do a rudimentary color cast removal.  Finally there were at least 4 frames with heavy artifact that I think was due to incomplete reject removal.  I complained and they just responded to my 2nd email.  They were apologetic and said they would refund my processing charges.  Still wouldn’t trust them.

This is the Bellows scan.  The one below is mine

Next lab I will be trying is Atlanta Film Lab……..to be continued