Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site tektronix.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!tektronix!kurtk From: kurtk@tektronix.UUCP (Kurt Krueger) Newsgroups: net.rec.photo Subject: Re: Home Color Darkroom Message-ID: <2784@tektronix.UUCP> Date: Wed, 20-Jun-84 15:16:08 EDT Article-I.D.: tektroni.2784 Posted: Wed Jun 20 15:16:08 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 20:38:03 EDT Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 19 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.