[Leica] Re: home processing C41

[dpost at triad.rr.com (Dan Post)]

Eric-
Having worked in a couple of minilabs, I can tell you the Fuji minilabs are
pretty good- The film is pulled, attached to a card, over rollers that are
dished and touch only the edges of the film. It travels up and down the rack
assembly, and if the final stabilizer tanks are changed as they are supposed
to be, there is very little chance of dust- especially from the solutions as
they are all filtered, and the film is air dried with filtered warm air. I
usually have more trouble keeping my greasy fingerprints off the film than
dust from the processor!
Perhaps I should not sort negatives while eating Kentucky Fried Chicken....
Dan
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric" <ericm@pobox.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 2:07 PM
Subject: [Leica] Re: home processing C41


> Thanks for the replies!
>
> In the end, I took it to the one local pro lab, even though they use a
> roller processor.  I was pleasantly surprised...no roller marks, as I had
> experienced in the past.  I had forgotten about having others do my film
for
> me, and found the little squiggly dust varmints duly embedded in several
> frames.  Argh.
>
> I think I'll stick with B&W still.  I checked the various kits that I
could
> find and wasn't happy with having some of the chemicals in the house.  And
> in the end, I think I preferred my B&W conversions to the actual color
> images.  :)
>
> --
> Eric
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