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Rice4Life

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Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 1:55 pm

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I managed to pick up a Jobo CPE-2 for a great price. Been doing b&w for a liitle over 6 months and have gone film crazy in the last 4 months, so i would like to take control of the whole process. Anyone recommend a local source for c41 chemicals? Henrys sells, but only special order online and shipping those heavy jugs is pricy.

Another Q, is powdered any better/worse then liquids concentrate? Seems cheaper to ship.

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Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 7:43 pm

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Incase anyones interested, i ended ordering from Freestyle in the US. Not many Canadian options.

Bought 3 Unicolor c-41, 1 litre powdered kits. $17 each.
http://www.freestylephoto.biz/10123-Unicolor-Powder-C-41-Film-Negative-Processing-Kit-1-Liter?cat_id=1001

Each kit advertises 8 36exp 35mm rolls but in online reviews most people can get %50 more then stated yields before noticable decline in performance.

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Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 7:55 pm

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i have tried developing my own b & w and it's pretty easy and now i would like to try to develop my colour film but is it harder than b & w? i shoot mostly medium format.

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Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:19 pm

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How much did you get the CPE-2 for? I love mine.

I get my C-41 from Freestyle and my Kodak E-6 from Vistek (well, for now until they discontinue it)

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Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 6:23 am

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I got my well used but 100% working Jobo for $200. Would have like to get one of he lift equipped ones, but they seem to go for a small fortune on eBay, not to mention shipping those monsters.

Havn't done c41 yet so I can't really coment on how easy it is. Seems straight forward, very similar to b&w but with more temp control. I was considering doing it by hand before I found the jobo, was going to use the bath tub as my water b

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Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 6:23 am

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Water bath^

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Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 8:48 am

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ok, i'm going to buy one kit and see if i can use it. if not, i'm going back to shoppers.

thanks for the link.

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Developing C-41 without a special waterbath machine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB8qXU7dkNk

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