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KODAK EKTAR 100 C-41 VS ECN-2 DEVELOPMENT

This Is a comparison of Kodak Ektar 100 developed in its native C41 developer and motion picture developer ECN-2. The first Gallery includes photos taken with my Nikon D810. The Kodak Ektar 100 was shot on a Nikon FM and Nikon F3HP with 35mm lenses. All shots digital and film were shot at the same settings and metered with a Sekonic Twinmate l-208. All photos are not edited, the negatives were converted with Negative Lab Pro. NLP settings: Source DSLR, Color model None, Pre Saturation 3 default, Tones linear + gamma and Color Kodak. I know playing with theses settings alone will give other results.

I was first exposed to ECN-2 by Matt Melcher on his podcast episodes DYI ECN and ECN-2 Follow up . Matt led me to James Harr’s website. I was truly amazed by the colors of the cross processing and just had to try it myself. With Kodak Ektar 100 being my favorite color negative film it was a no brainer to try it. I used the formula and times from James’s experiences along with some other information I found from Kodak. I purchased four chemicals from Photographers Formulary (Listed bellow) for $76. The CD-3 was purchased from Artcraft Chemical for $25. This will make many liters of chemistry. The reminder was purchased at Walmart. For this experiment the remote remover/ pre wash is not needed. I used Ilfostop Bath, Ilford Rapid Fixer, FPP Archival wash and FPP Foto Flow that I used for black and white development.

You will notice a color shift between the developers. Oddly some scenes look better in ECN-2 then the native C41, others do not. This brief experiment suggests that for some scenes that ECN-2 works well with Ektar 100 but is not a perfect substitute for C41 processing. Further experiments are needed. Over all I’m not disappointed, a few images in ECN-2 are actually Truer to color and give a nice look.

It will be interesting to see how the vision 3 films (50D, 250D and 500T) compare in C41. In the future I have plans to conduct the same experiments with Kodak Portra (160, 400 or 800), Kodak Kodacolor 200 (Color Plus 200) and Kodak Pro Image 100. Maybe others. With winter here I don’t plan on starting those experiments until spring with the possible exception of the Vision 3 500T.

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images are in the following order:

Digital, C41, ECN-2

C41, ECN-2

My “new” Camera

Today my AGFA ANSCO B2 Cadet JN-98 arrived. It was in very good condition for its age (1937-1940). The view finders and lens was a little dirty. The shutter works but had some drag and didn’t always reset, the bulb function would not hold the shutter back.

I did a quick search on YouTube to confirm how to take the B2 apart and with a little help from Dave Redman I had this super simple camera apart in no time. The front cover and viewfinder housing is only held on with two pins on the sides. Removing the cover exposes the entire shutter mechanism that is all mounted on one plate and held into the camera with furniture tacks. Mine is missing at least two and one was loose. I used a hammer and punch to gently put it back into place. This helped the shutter but didn’t fix it. Upon further examination and numerous shutter actions I found the lower Right spring chatching on the silver mechanical catch on also on the lower right side keeping the action from returning to its starting position. I bent up the lower half of the spring letting it clear the catch returning the camera to fully functional. I cleaned the lenses and view finders and I’m ready to load some film.

I have a roll of porta 400 in the mail, I hope it arrives before my Brothers wedding on Saturday. I want to be able to give them some unique photos of after the ceremony.

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My Saturday Morning

This past Saturday Morning I skipped the Ohio YouTuber meet up at Mohican State Park and went out and shot some Film and The below digital photos. I’ll have to post the film later after I get it developed.

It sounds like I really missed a good time with a lot of people. I cant say I know any of them other than the famous Jason Helmandollar that I hike with often. I suppose it would have been a good time to meet them.

I don’t know yet how I will do the blog in the future, whether it will be strictly work or personal or a mix. I may put photos like these that are not work related here in the blog instead of the main galleries.

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