Hello,
I have been shooting and printing B&W in wet-darkroom and also chrome for color (scanning and digital printing).
With my recent membership in a photo-studio I now have the possibility to make color prints using an enlarger from color negative film.
The studio includes an automatic colorpaper developer machine.
It does not have any color-neg developer for 4x5" film sheets.
Given the costs for processing sheets in commercial labs in Sweden, i.e. 11 USD, I certainly need to develop the sheets myself.
For B&W I use a combiplan tank, processing 6 sheets at a time. Usually with a very diluted developer to save chemistry (Aculux2=1:14 or FX39=1:19) and with developing times of about 15-18 minutes in 20C which gives me nice and consistent results.
Here are some questions you might help me with:
1) Can I process 6 color-neg sheets in a combiplan tank, with a dilution of at least 1:10 - if so which developer/chemistry do you recommend?
2) I would like to shoot both nature (landscape/macro) and people. any recommendations for a suitable film (color negatives)?
3) reading recent threads of manufacturers bailing out of business, any suggestions for which color paper I should look for? (I have never done color processing before so this will be a learning step for me...and I do not want to end up in a dead-end of knowledge...)
On a last thought, am I completely nuts thinking about color printing in the wet-darkroom compared to just doing digital prints from the color neg?
Kind regards, Patrik
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