![]() Jobo USA at one time had a great website for Home C-41 and recommended chemicals, but I am not sure if it still exist With some research, I am sure there are some archives on the subject. The C41 negatives make nice traditional enlargements using RA-4 materials. ![]() If you are still wanting traditional photographs and not interested in Ilfochrome, than I would use C41 processing which scans fine but not as well as transparencies. If you get tired of digital prints, you always have the positive to positive enlargement printing of Ilfochrome. If I was only interested in digital prints of landscape and people from scanned film, I would shoot a flat but sharp E-6 film (Fuji Astia - which scans much better and more accurate than Velvia) and slightly bring up colors in PS. In your situation however, I would be looking for a Jobo and start considering which direction my photography is headed in the long run. It was always more practical to use a lab, but I have always had good sources around me. I do not have any experience with processing at home. For more information, try doing a Web search on "cross processing film" or a similar phrase. It's certainly worth experimenting with cross-processing. Some people like the effect for certain types of shot, but it's not something you'd ordinarily do if you want "normal" negatives. E-6/C-41 cross-processing also results in generally odd colors and contrast. Likewise if you cross-process a C-41 film in E-6 or B&W chemistry, it will retain its orange color mask. The orange mask of C-41 films is a characteristic of the film, not the process, so Velvia processed in C-41 will lack the orange color mask. So if you cross-process Velvia (an E-6 slide film) in C-41 chemistry, you'll get negatives. The result of cross-processing is, to a first approximation, like using a conventional film for the process you used. Some cross-processing, such as B&W or (I believe) Kodachrome in either E-6 or C-41, won't work at all you'll get back a blank film strip because the bleach will remove the silver and there'll be no dyes left behind. Common types of cross-processing are E-6 film in C-41, C-41 film in E-6, and any color film (C-41, E-6, or K-14) in B&W chemistry. "Cross-processing" is processing a film intended for one process in another one. In trying to print these "negatives" you may wish to use a unexposed but processed piece of color negative above your film to add some of the propeties of having a built in mask. These Velvia negatives processed in C41 are unlikely to even come close to having the qualities of a proper color negative. If you are looking for nice natural color prints then I would avoid doing this and use either Kodak UC 100 or Fuji 160 S/C. If you are not going to be doing your own printing then a lab will most likely charge you quite a bit for printing these photos. ![]() Usually you get high contrast and one or more stops of speed gain in doing this and perhaps rather extreme saturation. Thre are some transparency films that work acceptably with this process while there are others that will give results somewhat worse than crap. I am not familar with the brand of chemistry that you mentioned. You can do some testing to find out if having unmasked negatives that are printedon color RA4 is of interest to you.
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