Developing Portra - what chemistry do you use?

[Michael Lloyd]

What chemistry do you use for Portra and is that what you use for other C41 films?

[adelorenzo]

I use the Tetenal liquid C-41 kits for all my color film, which is basically Portra 160/400 with occasional other stuff.

What do you want to know about it?

[Michael Lloyd]

I use the Tetenal liquid C-41 kits for all my color film, which is basically Portra 160/400 with occasional other stuff.

What do you want to know about it?

I've got a lot of 4x5 Portra stashed away in the freezer (a lot is relative of course. Probably 2 or 3 boxes at most and 60 or 70 35mm rolls) and I want to shoot more color 4x5 images this year. Other than the two negs that I processed a few days ago I haven't shot or processed much color. I use a Jobo CPE2. The trade name on the kit that I used for the two negs was Mydonal. I don't know if that's adequate, good, or bad so I thought I would see what the consensus is for C41.

[vinny]

Never heard of Mydonal.
The type of film is irrelevant, c41 is c41. I use Tetenal and used kodak chemicals prior to that.

[Michael Lloyd]

Never heard of Mydonal.
The type of film is irrelevant, c41 is c41. I use Tetenal and used kodak chemicals prior to that.

That's what concerned me. Tetenal and a few others show up in searches and on vendor websites. Nothing comes up for Mydonal.

[Jim C.]

Never heard of Mydonal, but if you have mixing instructions and it works use it all up then switch to the
Tetenal C-41 chems, I've used their small press kits with success.

[richardman]

I am using the Kodak Flexicolor currently. I was using Tetenal previously. Both seem to work fine.

[RMiksell]

I'm using Fujifilm CN-16 Neg N1-MV developer, N2-R bleach, along with the fixer and stabilizer. Very easy to mix (single concentrate).