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1. Home ECN development - what a disaster

   2024-04-05 20:22:54 UTC

   I wanted to try my hand at developing ECN-2 at home.  ECN is Kodak cinema film and can be shot in still cameras.  You can even buy it from Kodak in 400 ft rolls and cut it down to 4 x 100 ft rolls for bulk loading.  The reason to…

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2. And the Award for…..

   2021-05-16 23:22:33 UTC

   THE most messed up self developed roll of film goes to……..Ernie Nitka In 53 years of developing film this IS the most messed up job I can remember!  This is Ilford XP2 developed in Cinestill’s C41 two bath kit.  This roll fell prey to misalignment of the film sprockets, a…

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3. Bad Film and Camera - Bad Combination

   2020-11-27 14:08:59 UTC

   I have a couple of compact cameras and decided I’d like to sell one or several.  As I was testing the Nikon 35Ti it became clear that the funky analog display was not working as it should - the aperture can be set but not displayed properly.  So I can’t…

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4. Perfecting my C41 Technique

   2020-08-26 23:37:51 UTC

   Was not happy with my last outing, developing color film in C41 - it was Porta 400. It really required tweaking in post processing.  I finally got something usable by scanning using the plustek 120 and checking the ‘CCR’ button - which is the color cast removal button.   This time…

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