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From: kurtk@tektronix.UUCP (Kurt Krueger)
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Subject: Re: Home Color Darkroom
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Date: Wed, 20-Jun-84 15:16:08 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 20 15:16:08 1984
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	I make out quite well in a bedroom that has the windows covered
with black plastic.  I use Kodak Ektaprint chemicals and related paper.
Temperature control is important, but not as critical as Kodak would like
you to believe.  I do all my processing in a light tight tube in the kitchen
using a water bath.  This is MUCH cheaper than Ektaflex, especially if you
buy paper in 100 sheet boxes and chemicals by the gallon (get some glass
graduated cylinders to mix up a quart at a time, works fine regardless of
what Kodak will say.  Just be REAL carefull that you don't contaminate
your solutions and everything works great).

	Color is actually less messy than b&w because you don't have the
open trays.  The Ektaprint 2 process only uses two solutions (developer and
bleach-fix) not counting water rinses.

	I get around color balance problems by buying paper and film in
large quantities (24 rolls of film, 100 sheets of paper) and keep the stock
in the freezer.  There IS a difference from batch to batch of film and the
correction factors on the paper are never quite correct.