Couple of tips: 1. Skip pre-wash, just warm the tank with no water or chemistry. No lab ever does pre-wash, first thing to hit film should be developer. The official Kodak and Fujifilm literature don’t have pre-wash at all. Use the 3:15 dev time, adding more time after you dev more rolls. 2. Add a wash step between bleach and fixer to prolong your fixer. But go straight from developer to bleach. 3. The bleach and fixer last way longer than the developer, I’ve run 50 rolls before remixing. I increased bleach and fixer times to 2 min/4 min respectively. 4. To scientifically measure your processing for correctness, you should run control strips and read them with a color densitometer. 5. I get the pink water wash too, it’s not an issue. The control strip came out great. 6. If your cyan shadows issue is happening in RA-4 prints, it could be an issue with your RA-4 process. Remix fresh chemistry and see if it goes away. If it’s in scanning, I wouldn’t worry about it too much, most home scanning methods are very prone to color imbalance issues.
@NordicLab
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All of this recommendations valid for machine development and not for hand development. I don’t really care what lab do because main purpose of the labs - make it fast and cheap. But actually most of the labs have prewash, Colenta as i recall, and d&d and cinema film developer. I’m almost sure what this is the problem with off developer kits, i don’t have a test strips and for sure don’t have any tool to calibrate it and check l, but now i’m curious how far this side products can get in color to licensed kodak process
@ziorxkomtuper
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@@NordicLab I agree with @azncastigar and I doubt that many, if any, labs use prewash. You mentioned Colenta, but if you check the diagrams for their C-41 machines, you will see that the first bath is dev. Using cinema film processing is also not a good argument imo, since it's not C-41.
@vaneaauzeac4401
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I have this pinkish color in hte stabilizer bath all time with Tetenal and Rollei Colorchem C-41
@stratocactus
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I had the same with the Rollei kit. Freshly prepared solutions, or near exhausted doesn't make a difference. I had a strong red cast in my shadows on my last rolls but I think I overused my developper (3 months after dilution. I probably pushed it too much ahah). I have a new Bellini kit now, so I'll see if I still have that pinky rinse water.
@hermantoothrot
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Same with Tetenal C41
@NordicLab
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hm, interesting, because before i never had this one on old tetenal kits. Questionable results and i need calibrator now to check what happening 🤨
@vaneaauzeac4401
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@@hermantoothrot This problem with pinkish color change in the stab bath is present in the Tetenal E6 kit too
@JanneRanta
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1:22 is there a reason not to start the films on the reels when you use jobo? I've only used patterson. Makes the whole winding process a ton easier.
@NordicLab
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I don’t get what you mean
@JanneRanta
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@@NordicLab I mean start winding the films into the reels before you use the dark bag. That way you just snip the end of the film with scissors and you dont need to destroy the film canister in the bag.
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