E-6 did away with the need for re-exposure.
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On 1/23/2012 9:24 AM, Charles Geilfuss wrote:
> I did some of that back in the late 70's. It was E-4 I believe and it did
> require re-exposure. I used a 5 gallon aquarium with a small heater to keep
> the chemicals at the proper temperature. At some point I would remove the
> spool of film from the chemical bath and hold it up to a 120 Watt bulb. The
> film stayed on the reel and I would just rotate it in the light. Worked
> pretty well and the Ektachrome slides still look pretty good after 30 years.
>
> Charlie
>
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 5:09 AM, piers@xxxxxxxx<piers.hemy@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Ektachrome processing a PITA? Surely you jest? Granted you have to
>> maintain a high temperature, but the chemistry avoided the need for
>> re-exposure, which Ferrania CR-50 required. Try man-handling 36
>> exposures of wet part-processed film up to a fluorescent tube! That
>> was the easy bit, 'cos now you have to get it back in the spiral!
>>
>> Or was E-4 different from E-6?
>>
>> Happy days.
>>
>> Piers
>>
>> On 21/01/2012, Rick Beckrich<rbeckrich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> As another one-time lab-rat veteran of a commercial mass processing
>> house,
>>>
>>> I echo Moose's sentiments. Plus, I can remember processing some "racey"
>>>
>>> Ektachrome at home - long, long ago - because I didn't want it
>> confiscated
>>>
>>> by the censors at Kodak (Yes, they had them!) and what a PITA that was.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Bill Pearce<billcpearce@xxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I don't know to whom you are talking here. I have no interest whatsoever
>>>> in
>>>> processing color film. I made a couple of R
>>>> prints from slides in little plastic tube over 40 years ago. That was
>> more
>>>> than enough.
>>>>
>>>> Moose
>>>>
>>>> Another of the usual sopt-on observations here. There are those who have
>>>> said since the announcement, "Oh, well, I will just buy the chemistry
>> and
>>>> process myself." From someone that has done this professionally on a
>> leve
>>>> just higher than home processing, It Sucks!!
>>>>
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