Need help with C41 film development

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Anirban - 21 Nov 2006 23:55 GMT

I have been photographing on a fully manual film SLR for more than a
year now and I want to venture into developing my own film just to get
the feel of it.
What I am unable to find is the detailed instructions for that. I
bought one of these C41 development kits from Kodak (small capacity).
The paper that came with it listed nothing more than the recommended
dilutions.
Can anyone point me to an exhaustive source of information on the C41
process ?

-- Anirban

P.S. Online pointers would be much much more helpful than offline ones
(like paper books).

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Robert - 22 Nov 2006 00:45 GMT

>I have been photographing on a fully manual film SLR for more than a
> year now and I want to venture into developing my own film just to get
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
> P.S. Online pointers would be much much more helpful than offline ones
> (like paper books).

Here is a search of Kodak site for c-41.

The instructions should have development times, first developer, then fixer,
then stabilizer following the recommended times for each process.

http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=528&mode=&query=c-41&pq-loc
ale=en_US&_requestid=5559

Robert

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Rod Smith - 22 Nov 2006 13:15 GMT

> I have been photographing on a fully manual film SLR for more than a
> year now and I want to venture into developing my own film just to get
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> Can anyone point me to an exhaustive source of information on the C41
> process ?

Check out Kodak's publication Z-131. It's available as four separate PDFs
that describe the chemicals and their use in various types of equipment:

http://www.kodak.com/global/en/service/Zmanuals/z131.shtml

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