What will be the results of this "special" E-6(-) process? This technique meets my very stringent standard of "good enough." I wanted to find a cheap way to produce the funky results I value. My personal reason for pursuing this technique is that I have a bunch of very out of date slide film that will not perform that well even with proper E-6 processing. C-41 is far more available and can be found in nearly all places around the world.Ĥ. E-6 processing is becoming increasingly difficult to source. Although the E-6 chemicals are getting better, they still do not have the staying power of C-41 chemicals when stored.ģ. For home developers, the E-6 chemicals have a shorter shelf life than C-41 onced mixed to working dilutions. The Tetenal C-41 Color Negative Processing Kit - 1 Liter costs $50 and will process the same number of rolls.Ģ.
For example from Freestyle Photo, the Tetenal Colortec E-6 Kit - 1 Liter is $70 and will develop 12, 36 exposure rolls of film. C-41 chemicals are usually less expensive than E6 chemicals. Why would I want to develop my slide film this E-6(-) way?ġ. Home developers can buy kits that can have as many steps as six however some of the steps can be combined to make it at least as simple as standard C-41 development. The process is one of the more complex chemical development regimes now that the K-14 (Kodachrome) process is a thing of the past. Slide film is normally sent out to labs where the film is processed by a chemical process that is known as E-6. That use has long been supplanted by online photo slide shows, but the film has been kept around due to its remarkable sharpness and clarity. These "slides" are then used to bore teenagers in home slide shows of weddings and vacations from years gone by. The end result is that the film becomes the final positive image and is usually mounted in cardboard slide mounts. Slide film is also called positive, chrome or transparency film. I hope you find it an interesting alternative developing process. The basics have been kicking around the internet for some time, but as E-6 processing seems to be disappearing, an alternate technique may be of some use.Īlthough this technique has been kicking around the web a while, a Flickr thread that I can't find right now reignited my curiosity. I certainly didn't invent this technique. The example I use is for 35mm film, but the process will work for any size. I like to call this "E-6(-)" since there are definite minuses to the process. The results will be a positive image that will approach the quality of E-6 developed film.
In this instructable, we will develop slide film that normally uses the E-6 chemical process with a standard black and white film developer and color negative film process (C-41) chemicals.
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