![]() ![]() The developer is less contrasty than the kit developers, giving you more detail to work with. Kodak Flexicolor chemicals are considered to be the best you can get.Why bother with Kodak Flexicolor instead of the kit? Please read all safety and MSDS specification sheets for any chemicals that you purchase for this and other chemical processes that you may decide to undertake. This post is about conducting a chemical process which could cause harm to you and others if not conducted appropriately. Over the past two years, I’ve learned a lot and now understand that Flexicolor developer is never stored at a working strength and that allows you to store it for longer.Īfter much research on-line, guidance from the people at the Film Photography Project on developing C-41, and my own trial and error, I am bringing you my guide to C-41 with Flexicolor at home.ĭISCLAIMER: I cannot be held responsible for anything that you do as a result of following any information in or linked from this post. The FPP kit claims that you can’t trust the kit chemistry after 7 days and so I got hung up on the idea that storing 5L of C-41 developer for any length of time would not be wise. That’s a lot of chemistry to mix and keep. In my reading on separate bleach and fixer, I had come across methodologies to use entirely Kodak Flexicolor chemistry, but the thing that held me back was you had to mix 5L of the developer at a time. Further, not using the blix meant that I was stockpiling blix chemistry packets. This proved to not be terribly sustainable as I found myself paying $20.99 for C-41 Developer that according to the instructions is only good for up to 8 rolls of 135mm at 36 exposures. I found that I could use Kodak Flexicolor bleach and fixer with the developer from the Film Photography Project kit. I began immediately to work on figuring out how to get a separate bleach and fixer so as to eliminate Blix from my process. As I shoot film with the intention of getting the most out of it, this bothered me. Blix was really designed for RA-4 and when you use it in C-41, it causes your images to lose shadow detail and highlights. After getting comfortable with this kit, I started reading about C-41 online and found out that Blix (very common in the kits) isn’t really the best stuff to use in the C-41 process. When I first got started doing C-41 at home, I used the Film Photography Project C-41 kit. This article will talk about how to do C-41 using Kodak’s Flexicolor kit! If you have a safe place to do this and are used to working with photo chemistry, being able to do C-41 (and E-6) are well within your reach. Developing color film at home is not as hard as some people make it out to be. ![]()
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