![]() ![]() The bottles are made of PET, have tight-fitting caps, and are reasonably heavy gauge, and they’ve been perfect for my darkroom use.Īll that was truly needed to begin was simply to mix the chemistry into the 1 liter bottles, set-up the water bath, get everything up to temp, and follow the directions. ![]() I’ve been using them for black and white processing, and just consumed more of them so I’d have the bottles to reuse for 1 liter (1 quart) color chemistry kits too. Walmart stores in the US carry a range of store brand 1 liter flavored soda waters called “Clear American” whose labels are easy to remove, with a few little spots of adhesive that can cleanly be removed with a touch of Goo Gone - an easily sourced adhesive solvent. #UNICOLOR POWDER C 41 FILM NEGATIVE PROCESSING KIT UPGRADE#I already owned an Anova Precision Cooker (immersion circulator), and wanted to upgrade for the kitchen to the newest model - leaving the older one available for darkroom use. To contain a temperature-controlled water bath for the chemistry (since it all needs to be held at 102☏) I’d chosen a tub from IKEA, the so-called “Pluggis.” I also got a couple of plastic organizers from The Container Store to set inside, which allowed the bottles to be held in-place in an organized fashion. I’d already previously figured-out how I’d be doing this, physically speaking: I didn’t work very hard at choosing subjects I didn’t waste the shots, but I didn’t exactly invest in them either. Instead, I took a cheap roll of Lomography Color Negative 400, loaded it into my Mamiya RB67, and spent an afternoon snapping-off its 10 6×7 images. To hedge my bets, I decided not to process any of the “real” rolls of film that were sitting in a pile. As it turns out, the worries were unnecessary. ![]() I have to confess: I’d been dragging my feet, fearful of this moment - worried whether I’d end-up simply ruining some film and losing shots I’d worked so hard to capture. A few months ago, before the COVID-19 pandemic dug its claws fully into the United States, I finally decided it was time to open-up the box of CineStill C-41 chemistry that had been sitting on a shelf since December, and set about processing the pile of color negative film that had been accumulating up to now. ![]()
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