A Celebration of E6

Hi,

rjstep3 said:
Who makes the chemicals for E6 processing?
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1. FujiHunt
2. Tetenal
3. Kodak (yes, they are still making the chemistry).

You see, there are more manufacturers for E6 chemistry than for E6 film.
Don't worry, be happy and shoot reversal film. Developing chemistry is not a problem at all!
It is easy to make (some photographers even mix it by themselves).
Other photo chemical manufacturers like Calbe (Germany) can make it, too.

This "E6 chemistry panic" is a complete nonsense spread by former Kodak employees on apug.
By the way, these are the same people who some years ago have said "instant film will be dead at first".
And now instant film is the first film type which has a strong revival with 20% increasing sales p.a.

rjstep3 said:
are they so specific to E6 chemistry, or are they generally available?
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Generally available, both the FujiHunt and the Tetenal kits for self development. Kodak is only offering higher volume kits for labs.
You may have a look here for example:
http://www.macodirect.de/farbchemie-c-765_768.html?osCsid=74b2ee9ae2770f8e29a54c67d0d6f325

rjstep3 said:
Ferrania is planning on releasing slide film next year, so I suppose they must have planned for the continuation of E6 chemicals being available, or making them available themselves.
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They know that E6 chemistry is not a problem at all. Of course they have checked before their decision with the chemical companies.
By the way, in the next edition of the film photo print magazine 'PhotoKlassik' ( www.photoklassik.de ) there will be a report about a factory visit at new Film Ferrania.
And a long detailed article about reversal film!

It is simple to keep chrome film alive:
1. Let's shoot as much as possible.
2. Don't hide your lovely chromes: Show them to others, spread the word, get more photographers interested in this outstanding and unique photographic medium!

Cheers, Jan

P.S.: Guys, your pictures here are awesome!
 
Photo_Smith said:
I thought we could all post our most recent slides, some say the medium will soon be gone which would be dire so lets be positive.
I'll kick off:
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I beg to differ. I don't think slide film will ever completely disappear, but rather will settle into a niche market somewhat like vinyl records and vacuum tube-driven receivers and turntables.
Here are a couple of my recent shots done with colour slide:

motorized Nikon F with DE-1 meterless prism
Nikkor 180 2.8 ED AIS manual focus
Fuji 100 ISO colour slide
exposure 5.6 @ 1/125th
Sharing_a_laugh_2-800.jpg



motorized Nikon FM
Micro-Nikkor 105 f4 AI manual focus
Fuji 100 ISO colour slide
exposure f4 @ 1/60th

Homage_to_Our_Present_Image-800.jpg
 
HHPhoto said:
Hi,



1. FujiHunt
2. Tetenal
3. Kodak (yes, they are still making the chemistry).

You see, there are more manufacturers for E6 chemistry than for E6 film.
Don't worry, be happy and shoot reversal film. Developing chemistry is not a problem at all!
It is easy to make (some photographers even mix it by themselves).
Other photo chemical manufacturers like Calbe (Germany) can make it, too.

This "E6 chemistry panic" is a complete nonsense spread by former Kodak employees on apug.
By the way, these are the same people who some years ago have said "instant film will be dead at first".
And now instant film is the first film type which has a strong revival with 20% increasing sales p.a.



Generally available, both the FujiHunt and the Tetenal kits for self development. Kodak is only offering higher volume kits for labs.
You may have a look here for example:
http://www.macodirect.de/farbchemie-c-765_768.html?osCsid=74b2ee9ae2770f8e29a54c67d0d6f325



They know that E6 chemistry is not a problem at all. Of course they have checked before their decision with the chemical companies.
By the way, in the next edition of the film photo print magazine 'PhotoKlassik' ( www.photoklassik.de ) there will be a report about a factory visit at new Film Ferrania.
And a long detailed article about reversal film!

It is simple to keep chrome film alive:
1. Let's shoot as much as possible.
2. Don't hide your lovely chromes: Show them to others, spread the word, get more photographers interested in this outstanding and unique photographic medium!

Cheers, Jan

P.S.: Guys, your pictures here are awesome!
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Thanks - that is some consolation. I have never done E6 processing, and I thought the chemicals were some weird proprietary speciality specific only to E6 users. If they are widely available, that is something.

I had been experimenting with neg film in readiness for a forced switch, but I'll go back to E6, it's worth every penny.

rjstep3
 
rjstep3 said:
I'm guessing you like motorbikes?!
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Obviously :)

rjstep3 said:
I had been experimenting with neg film in readiness for a forced switch, but I'll go back to E6, it's worth every penny.
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This sums up nicely.

Although I thought I'll shoot C41 as well at least as much (portraits that work much better on C41 imho), but in practice E6 has become a dominating force in my color work.
 
Can I ask a stupid question: how do you get some good images in your posts by including a link to flickr? when I have linked to flickr, I just get the URL, but people here have really good images way beyond the size limitations for the RFF site.

rjstep3
 
Click this icon
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and paste in the URL of the image itself which you get from the All Sizes page of an image. Choose the size that corresponds to the forum's requirements.
 
@philipus

like this, you mean

8521923402_4968ca288a_b.jpg


This is large 1024, which shows on the site ok, pleasing!

rjstep3
 
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Yep that worked. A bit small though :)

Edit: that's a better size. Nice photo.
 
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