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Craig -
Thanks for your input. Your description from the troubleshooting
guide sounds possible although very weird as you mentioned. It looks like
a chemical contamination to me.
I will give Kodak another chance. In the 16+ years I've been
shooting, this is only the second time a lab has screwed up on processing.
Chris
I've been reading this thread and first Sean's
idea of the film being flashed before it enters the processor doesn't work
since any film that was flashed would turn pure white (clear).
I've
been doing my own E-6 at home lately (picked up a Jobo CPE-2 processor on
E-bay) so I went thru the troubleshooting section for the chemistry I use and
they do mention that maximum densities that appear green is usually caused by
stabilizer contaminating either the first developer or the color developer.
But the only way I could see this happening the way you describe is if the
film were hand processed on a reel and the lab person accidentally started to
pour in the stabilizer and then relized their mistake and quickly poured it
out before every thing on the reel was contaminated. Any way this sounds like
a very weird processing error.
Craig Michael Utter
Chris & Jennifer Cook wrote:
The emerald green color starts at the beginning
of the roll after the clear
yellowish part, lasts around 5
frames, skips 4-6 frames, ruins another 2
frames, then the rest
of the roll is fine. Roll is 36exp.
Chris
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Chris Cook
Astronomical
Photography
www.abmedia.com/astro
-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Walker
<swalker@SkyandTelescope.com>
To: astro-photo@seds.org
<astro-photo@seds.org>
Date: Saturday, October 05, 2002
7:02 PM
Subject: RE: [APML] Bad E6 processing
>I used to do E-6 and C-41 processing at a quickie photo store in
Cambridge.
>what would happen is occasionally at the end of
the day, someone manually
>loads a card with slide film into
the processor, and forgets to check if a
>card is already in
the machine, it usually flashes (but not completely
>obliterates) between 4 and 10 frames on the roll that was in the
machine.
>the reason it doesn't kill it all is because some of
the film was already
>curled down into the first bath, and
some of it was still in the film
>canister. the part that was
yellowish was just entering the bath. does it
>look like a
sharp/sudden difference on the end that seems to be unaffected?
>that would be the clincher of my theory. mailed in film to Kodak
uses the
>roller machines.
>
>Sean
Walker
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