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c-41, color, color film, color film at home, DIY color film development, home development, unicolor
After about 15 years or so of B&W developing I think I am finally ready to take the plunge and try C-41. A couple of years ago I saw this video http://www.jrobertlennon.com/articles/c41homedev/ and got real excited and purchased the kit, but I still haven’t gotten around to trying it yet. I have a couple of bags of color film from the last 2 years that I’ve never gotten around to taking in for processing. The combination of being cheap and lazy makes color film pretty much useless to me. But after selling my digital camera I no longer have a way to take quality color images. With fall coming I don’t want to be stuck only shooting black and white (that’s what winter is for). So I’m finally going to do it, right now. Pictures to follow. Stay tuned. I won’t go over the process since the link provided is more then sufficient if you want to try this yourself. I will say that it’s much more economical and if you’ve already got the stuff anyway why not give it a try? I’m going to process a roll of Ektar 120 that I shot with my Diana some time back. I don’t really even remember what I shot with it (or most of my color film for that matter). So this is sort of exciting for me.
Updated! So as you see from the above photo, the experiment was a success. It was really easy but a lot more involved then black and white. Black and white is so forgiving, where color supposedly is not. But as long as you follow directions the process is really quick and easy. Scanning is great too, no more crappy magenta cast prints from the pimply teenager at the photo lab, no more 14 dollar CD’s from Costco… Nope, I can screw up my own photos for almost free now! Yay. I’m excited.
