Critique Welcomed I Now Process My Own Color Film

[Brian Moore]

I'm fed up running hither and thither trying to find someplace to process my color film. So with 10 rolls of 35mm color film from my trip to Prague needing processed, I finally bought a color developing kit and a few extra pieces of equipment to make it happen. Here is a self-developed color image from my Olympus XA. The film is Kodak Gold 200 ASA.

I snapped this shot from the famous Charles Bridge.

 

[Pete Askew]

Well done Brian. That has worked very well. What kit / gear did you use?

And I recognise that view well (and those damned padlocks - some have now appeared on Glienike ). Did you spot the devil at the other end?

 

[Brian Moore]

Thanks, Pete. I bought the unicolor kit from Freestyle. Its powders that you dilute. I also bought a larger developing tank. I can do 5 35mm rolls or 3 120 at one go now.

 

[Pete Askew]

It looks to have given excellent results. How sensitive to temperature is it?

 

[Pete Askew]

I guess the larger volumes help with that.

 

[Tom Dunne]

A fantastic result here Brian, love it. Is the process much different than the mono?
Have you now said goodbye to digital or did you ever embrace it?

 

[Pete Askew]

H never said hello!

Yes, quite different. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-41_process

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Looks great. How about black and white? LOL, only kidding!

I agree, Pete, those padlocks are annoying. Someone started one in Edinburgh too. Is no bridge safe?

 

[Pete Askew]

I'm thinking of buying some bolt cutters and starting a project called 'Broken Hearts'!

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Excellent out put Brian , must be a bus stop? or a Pub

 

[Pete Askew]

Guided tour.

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Guided tour.

To view the padlocks

 

[Pete Askew]

Sadly, yes.

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Sadly, yes.

You're serious?

 

[Pete Askew]

Yes, they have become quite famous along with the John Lenon wall. Even the Segway tours seem to stop at them.

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Yes, they have become quite famous along with the John Lenon wall. Even the Segway tours seem to stop at them.

Learn something new everyday , a good image for the archives , 'Human behaviour at the start of the 21st century'. Now I know why there are big queues at B&Q

 

[Brian Moore]

It looks to have given excellent results. How sensitive to temperature is it?

Thanks, Pete. Initial soak and then developer they want at 102 degrees f. Blix can be anywhere from 95 to 105 f. Wash is at 95 to 105 also. What I actually did was plop the developer into the tank when it was at about 104, thus giving some allowance for cooling as it transferred from it's warm bath into the developing tank. Seems to have worked OK.

 

[Brian Moore]

I guess the larger volumes help with that.

It does,...psychologically at least.

 

[Brian Moore]

A fantastic result here Brian, love it. Is the process much different than the mono?
Have you now said goodbye to digital or did you ever embrace it?

It's a little different because of the temperature and also because the times in the chemicals are the same for all speeds of film.

As to digital, Pete, in the post that immediately follows yours, is right. Although I do shoot digital from time-to-time (I have a Canon 7D) it doesn't interest me like film does. I believe that if all the film manufacturers suddenly closed up shop I would then shoot digital more often. But I would be finding ways to make images with home made emulsions and old cameras,...like those 19th century dudes. Having said that,...those Merrills, and in fact the Sigma Foveon sensor cameras in general, do have a lot of appeal to me.

 

[Brian Moore]

Excellent out put Brian , must be a bus stop? or a Pub

It's Czech Republic, Julian. It is undoubtedly a pub.