I went ahead and bought some the Arista E6 processing kit and so far have developed two rolls. Never developed E6, only B&W, and I'm having some learning curve adjustments:
1. First roll came out way too light with greenish hues, can't make out very much. I think what happened was the temperature fluctuated too much.
2. My second roll came out kind of milky looking, the whole thing is a little pink too. The images are much better on this roll but overall too light. I kept everything at 105 this time, the only think is I may have pre-washed a little too long. I'm hoping my next roll comes out better, what can I do differently to get away from that milky effect and get better images?
Also can this be from using expired film? Maybe even cross contamination of the chemicals?
Using a Jobo bath for color processing
**I'm moving upward to LF film in the next few months and would love to get his little problem solved - using 120 right now and I'm losing 12 images every time I mess up, so I need to figure it out. New chemicals are on their way just so I can mix them exactly to specification without using math to adjust. Shooting only 'good', non expired film and bracketing each image just to make sure the 'lightness' on the film isn't my own overexposure problem (it's been known to happen..)
Anyone else experience light images like this while developing E6 at first?
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