Another E-6 Home Success w/ Image

[Penceler]

Just processed my first E-6 at home, Nothing exciting on the image but it is an image... hopefully the sun will come out tomorrow. At least it's not scratched!!!

BTW... it's snowing in Baltimore,

Did the image in a message thing work???

John

 

[batterytypehah!]

Did the image in a message thing work???

Nope,not for me.

 

[Penceler]

Try this again

Try this again

If nothing else, I'll figure out how to upload an image

 

[Penceler]

Another image from the same roll. I'm pleased with the color balance. Good looking guy in the mirror too.

 

[shadowfox]

Are you using tanks or some kind of processor like Jobo or Kreonite?

 

[Penceler]

Just a Peterson tank and water bath.

John

 

[johannielscom]

I'd love to see those images, but they're not there.

To post images to the thread, just first add them as an attachment. In that attachment window, click the link when uploaded, the image opens in a new window. Copy the address on that window, and insert an image in the original post, pasting that address.

End result equals this post.

The above picture is just an example, nothing to do with the OP subject, obviously...

 

[Penceler]

2nd round succes

2nd round succes

Sun came out today so i shot another roll and tried processing again. Very pleased with the results. I'll consider two data points a trend!

Provia with Bessa 2A and ZM 28 2.8

John

 

[David Murphy]

I like the shot: Really nice rich colors like only slide film can deliver

 

[Penceler]

Thanks - the Zeiss 28 certainly makes life easy,

 

[umcelinho]

Sun came out today so i shot another roll and tried processing again. Very pleased with the results. I'll consider two data points a trend!

Provia with Bessa 2A and ZM 28 2.8

John

Delicious colors! I am a total newbie in film developing, still in my first steps for BW. As soon as I feel confident enough with BW, I want to try E6.

Where I live the labs are careless and I'm tired of receiving scratched negs. It's just a shame I'd need to bring E6 chemicals from abroad, as it is not sold in shops. And that would probably be quite complicated to do travelling by plane... :\

 

[ampguy]

Penceler - very nice, I have an E6 roll that Costco doesn't want to process. If you'd like, I'd be happy to send it to you, along with some film or filters or something.

 

[.ken]

What Dev kit did you use? Thanks

 

[Penceler]

Thanks all.

I used the Tetenal kit (sp?). Shelf life is doesn't look good once mixed - developers started turning brownish within a few days.

I've not found E6 any more difficult than B&W - it just takes longer as you need to be very anal about temperature and let everything come up sloooowly. Once its there processing is about the same. Temperature seem much more critical than time. I used a very professional crock-pot water bath.

Ampguy - feel free to contact me via PM. I'd be happy to try processing your roll (Costco won't process E-6??). Hopefully they're not your daughters wedding or anything important. My wealth of experience is two rolls!

BTW - scratches from the lab are why I got into this. 2 rolls, not a scratch on them. Its the age old problem - who's better - a novice who knows nothing but is motivated or an expert who doesn't GAS.

John

 

[Penceler]

Another from the same roll

John

 

[jalLee2001]

I am addicted to slides, congrats, this makes me want to give it a try,

 

[40oz]

Very nice.

I don't think of it as "amateur" vs. "professional", I think most would call you an "artisan" compared to a "commercial shop." You get better results simply by taking more care.

 

[charjohncarter]

I am addicted to slides, congrats, this makes me want to give it a try,

I hope we won't all be doing our own slides. I will, of course, if I have to get get results like that: excellent.

 

[Penceler]

Very nice.

I don't think of it as "amateur" vs. "professional", I think most would call you an "artisan" compared to a "commercial shop." You get better results simply by taking more care.

You're right of course. My apologies as I misspoke.

Hopefully more will try E-6 at home and the chemicals will stay on the store shelves.

John

 

[papasnap]

lovely shots, with such beautiful provia colour and contrast!

I've never even looked into processing my E-6, but if my current lab closes I might have to take matters into my own hands.. I get the odd small scratch on the film from them, but nothing that Digital ICE on my Coolscan 5000 can't remedy.

out of curiosity, which provia is it?