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So Long Portra 400 NC & VC ~ Hello Pro Portra
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Kodak Portra 400 NC & VC to be discontinued and replaced with a new film, Professional Portra 400
Apparently, it’s thought it’ll be super easy to scan.
I’ll be stocking up on some NC for sure, my favourite film by far.http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professional/products/films/portra/400main.jhtml” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;
Sinead,
Slightly off topic but I was wondering if colour film development was much different than b+w ?
I’d imagine temps are even more critical…Thanks
hi mark, doing colour is not as difficult as most people would think, yes temperature has to be controlled a little tighter but that’s not to difficult to do, also look into home developing e6(slide) film, I thought this would be super hard until i bought the kit in gunns, admittedly the first 2 rolls weren’t great but a bit of practice and patience and you’ll be surprised how easy and enjoyable it is, like everything the more you do it the better you’ll get.
Gunns have different size C41 kits from Rollei which include dosage tips and syringes. They look like a good kit so I might try them myself soon.
I’m a bit out of touch with what people are up to, but I’m fairly sure Joseph & Alan were dabbling with colour processing, don’t know how it worked out for either of them.
A good friend of mine does his own E6 processing and he’s adamant it’s not at all difficult. He does quite a bit of cross processing too, and is currently doing some colour neg in E6 for me, really looking forward to seeing how that turns out. As fas as I know his darkroom set up is pretty pertinent, which might make the temperatures a bit easier to control. Not sure if it’s the kind of thing I’d want to be pockling around with in the kitchen. Could be wrong though.
Sinead
Folks it is indeed quite easy to develop color negatives. At Gunns for example they are selling this new Rollei developer called Digibase, you can try Tetenal which they have as well. I have great experiences with Digibase. It doesnt need to be 40 degrees developing in continuous agitation as Tetenal requires, 20 is enough but the process itself takes longer and very similar to B&W. Cost of one 120 roll or one 35mm is only around 70 cents!
Pity about Portra by the way.
Vlad
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