From: Stephen Kent Jusick (email suppressed)
Date: Sun Feb 18 2007 - 18:26:11 PST
yes, this is what I thought, and what I was looking for.
thanks Ken!
Could you be any more specific about variations using the 6-step E-6 kit?
I'd love to try some of these!
And when you say processing 7218 in E-6 renders the
chemistry"unusable" for processing reversal stocks (say 7240, or the
new Ektachrome 64), I assume you mean that it own't yield
conventional results, but that it might create something interesting,
right?
I'd love to have your updated article, if you care to send it.
best,
SKJ
>7218 in E-6
>
>Neither chemistry nor camerastock (neg/rev) determines whether a
>processed image ends up positive or negative. Rather it's the
>processing steps that are used. One may make a negative from
>reversal filmstock or make a positive image from negative stock. For
>example, if one is processing E6 reversal stock, one can skip from
>the first developer to the fix, and get a negative.
>
>That said, all 1-liter COLOR E6 home processing kits combine the
>bleach and fix into one step, thereby preventing one from making a
>neg, or skipping bleach. The TMAX b/w 1-liter b/w kit does not
>combine these steps, permitting you to make a negative or skip
>bleach. But I recently tried to skip bleach with that kit and it
>came out black, presumably because too much silver was left
>unremoved. If you obtain a 5-liter Fuji Hunt or Kodak E6 color kit,
>none of the chemistry steps are combined, thereby permitting one to
>make: a color reversal OR a (greenish) color neg OR a (sepia-ish)
>black and white neg (by skipping the color step) OR skipping bleach
>with all of these aformentioned possibilities.
>
>Processing Vision negative stocks in E6 chemistry will yield you a
>psychedelic mess of gleefully tortured pastels, but will exhaust the
>chemistry very quickly. 300 feet or so is all you'll manage. Of
>course 'exhaust' is relative. I find the older the chemistry, the
>more magical the mix. Also note that processing Vision stocks in
>chemistry for which it was not intended will render those solutions
>'unusable' with the stocks for which it was formulated.
>
>More details can be found in my article, 'Antidote for a Virtual
>World; Hand-processing Reversal Motion Picture Film', recently
>updated/amended for the imminent reprint of Helen Hills 'zine. In
>the meantime, I'd be happy to forward it to anyone that is
>interested.
>
>Ken
>
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