![]() I have to take mine to the county waste processing facility along with my other used photochemistry.Īt the end of this process, you should now have 3 1L bottles of chemistry: For what is left over, consult with your municipality’s regulations on chemical disposal. 1L of bleach in the bag goes into the cylinder and into a 1L bottle.įor the C-41 fixer, pour 1L into the cylinder and into one of the two 1L bottles for fixer. With a hole cut in the top, removing the spout, you can now pour the chemistry into a graduated cylinder and from there into your bottles.įor the C-41 bleach, this is straightforward. Instead, you’ll need to carefully cut the spout off of the bottle so that you have a place that you can carefully pour the chemicals into a graduated cylinder. This is a terrible way to try and get the chemistry out unless you want chemicals all over you. That is the spout and chemistry will not come out of that unless you depress the piece in the middle. In getting the chemicals out, you’ll run into this: The green chemical (and smaller tank) is the bleach and the larger tank has the fixer. Here are pictures of the unboxing:Īs you can see, we have two tanks with chemicals. Part 2 is just over 2L of C-41 Fixer that has to be diluted at 1+1. Part 1 is 1L of C-41 bleach to be used as is. So here you have Part 1 and Part 2 and because this is meant to go in a processing machine, there aren’t any real instructions for how to turn this F2 kit into a home developing kit. Starting out, I had a Unicolor kit ready to go, and since you can still use the developer and stabilizer from those, I simply mixed my developer and stabilizer per the instructions of the Unicolor kit.įor the stop bath, the formula is 5% white distilled vinegar at a 1+4 mix with distilled water.įor the bleach and fixer, I purchased the F2 kit from Unique Photo available here:Īnd this is where things get interesting because what you get is this: I ended up needing six 1L glass bottles plus 1 500mL glass bottle to store my C-41 chemistry in. To start with, I knew I’d need a lot more bottles than what I had. Please read all safety and MSDS specification sheets for any chemicals that you purchase for this and other chemical processes that you may decide to undertake. This post is about conducting a chemical process which could cause harm to you and others if not conducted appropriately. This post is about the how and some examples of my results of actually doing this.ĭISCLAIMER: I cannot be held responsible for anything that you do as a result of following any information in or linked from this post. So after sitting on this nagging bit of information that somehow separate bleach and fix is better than blix for months, I finally figured out how to move from using Blix to a separate bleach/fix combination. (There are rumors that the Rollei separate bleach/fix kit can be purchased in Europe. In fact, I can’t find a single site selling a kit with separate bleach and fix in the United States. So what’s the dilemma? The dilemma is that most C-41 kits targeted to the home developer come with Blix. There are many, many more places where PE and others tout the benefits of a separate bleach/fix over blix. It is what I have been saying all along!” (Comment #352 at ) I even sense a larger tonal range, and deeper blacks. 35mm almost seemed unusable before, but the results I just got here have true life. The biggest difference is the reduction in grain and increase in sharpness. ![]() After using blix for the last two years, I’m dumbfounded. “I used up developer from a tetenal kit I had on the go, so the biggest difference was using separate bleach and fix. The following discussion that another forum member started was very interesting to me: ” However, I can say that use of a blix instead of a real bleach then fix cycle is the root of many problems.” (Comment #356 at ) He has made a lot of statements on this subject on this site, including such gems as this: This particular employee goes by the moniker “PE” on the popular site APUG (Analog Photography Users’ Group), which has recently been acquired by Photorio. ![]() If you have ever felt that way, then you’ll know how I felt when I first came across comparison statements made by a former Kodak-Eastman employee on the difference in C-41 with blix versus separate bleach/fix. Have you ever read something before and been left with a nagging feeling that what you read discounted what you knew and made you feel like you weren’t doing as good as you could? And then did you spend months trying to rationalize that what you were doing was just fine and didn’t need to be improved?
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