Jumping back into shooting and developing film after a 20 year hiatus, I decided to give
color processing a go with Kodak E-6 chemistry and some sheets of Fuji Astia, all went
well except for 4 sheets of grossly underexposed night shots but the 5th, a portrait,
was the charm.
Having never seen freshly developed color slide film before, is it normal for it to look
very opaque with just a hint of an image when it's wet ?
I thought I had fubar'd the whole developing session since I over agitated the Color
Developer step by 2 min, but as it dried it seemed to 'spring' to life as a 4x5 slide.
It looks a bit magenta to me which I'm attributing to the over development of the
ColorDeveloper step, but I could be wrong.
And what exactly does the Final Rinse component of the Kodak E-6 kit do ?
It was such a small bottle and quantity I figured it might be a wetting agent like
PhotoFlo, but it didn't smell like it and I couldn't find any info about it on Kodaks site.
Can it be skipped and rely on a water wash ?
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