My First Homemade E6 Process
written by stouf
on February 17th, 2009
, 30 comments
(29 votes)
Sunday 8th of February 2009 will be one of these dates I’ll remember. I processed my own slide films. In my kitchen.
Let’s start from the beginning. The only lab in Québec that was offering cheap slide processing stopped its activity. I decided to buy their processing machine. It was an old Jobo ATL 3, broken and dirty. It took me about two weeks to completely clean it and repair it. And now it works. The Jobo ATL 3 is a rotating drum (or rotary tube) processor. It’s basically a huge water bath (@ 38°C) that fills and empties automatically with chemicals a big black drum containing the films (5 X 35mm, or 4 X 120mm)
It’s a kine of big monster taking half of the space in my kitchen…
My two friends from Paris, Pol & Tom, came to visit me recently (Pol made a nice aquarelle of my struggle to make this old rusty thing work). I shot a kodak EPR 64, outdated since 1989 with my horizon, during the Carnival of Québec. And then I processed it in my kitchen. It was easier than I thought. I was really happy of the result.
I really encourage anyone to get a film processor if they have the possibility (mine cost 400$), I really felt something intense when I removed the processed film out of the drum…
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