Guide to developing Super8 at home.

[Chris-B]

Anyone found any other ways to develop Kodachrome K40?

So far I have developed as B&W negative with normal B&W film developer (ID11, D76..etc) and have used the B&W reversal kit from The Widescreen Centre to get a positive image.
Has anyone tried E-6 on K40? I have heard that you can get a B&W reversal image with K40 with E-6 chemicals.

Anyone tried developing Vision 200 or Ektachrome as Negative or Reversal.

Has anyone tried home processing with other colour films, I would love to hear about your experiences successful or not!

I going to try and make a developing guide (hopefully to post on this site) for anyone wanting to develop there own Super 8, I will post my results as and when I get them and write up the complete guide over the next few months.

Chris.

[wahiba]

In the summer of 75 or 76, it was the last real hot one, I home processed some colour film. I think it was Ferraniacolour. Later I also processed some colour slides.

I have also processed black and white to positive.

These efforts convinced me that I stick to processing black and white to negative, so as far as cine was concerned stuck to Kodachrome and Fujichrome.

:? Now that modern technology lets the computer do the reversing developing black and white to negative and electronically reversing is a viable proposition. As my interest is in the cameras and filming rather than projecting I have found this works well.

However. I too would be interested in anyone elses reversla processing activities.

For colour film processed using E6, what is the second exposure procedure? For Ferrania it was a 500watt photoflood 30cmm from the spiral which was submerged it water in a white bowl (from Ferranias own book!). I believe the actual time for the second exposure is not too critical within a minute or wo.

The next concerns bleaching. Where does one get the sulphuric acid? I have seen 10% solutions advertised and assume these are re diluted to 2%, but I have seen no data.

When I get around to it I intend experimenting having recently acquired a 16mm developing tank for still cameras that takes about 60cm of film. The idea is to use standard 8 and run 60cm lengths at a range of settings through the camera.

Anyhow I might be able avoid re-inventing the wheel if anyone has been there before.

Phew - I do seem to have gone on a bit. Hope it makes sense!!